Judicial appointments: Supreme Court and govt test Laxman Rekha
CJI Thakur says apex court duty to ensure executive stays within ambit; Minister Prasad disagrees on vacancies In the latest…
Government has no intention to interfere in judicial appointments: Ravi Shankar Prasad
The revised draft handed over by Prasad to Chief Justice of India T S Thakur is before the consideration of…
61 MPs seek impeachment of Andhra judge for atrocities against a Dalit officer
Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Digvijaya Singh, Naresh Agarwal are among those who moved the petition in the Upper House. Sixty-one…
HC Judges’ Appointment: 43 Recommendations Rejected Due To Adverse IB Inputs, Serious Complaints: Government
Minister of State for Law PP Chaudhary on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that the major reasons for referring back…
V R Krishna Iyer – The Super Judge – lecture delivered by Fali S Nariman
This is a reproduction of the speech delivered by Fali Nariman at the inaugural lecture of the VR Krishna Iyer…
24 High Courts have a total of 43% Judicial Vacancies
The justice delivery system is taking a beating as the Centre and the Supreme Court slug it out over norms…
Supreme Court slams, government rushes to clear 5 names for Delhi HC
Brushing aside its objections to two names, the Centre has cleared the decks to elevate five serving judicial officers as…
To be truly transparent
Only a full-time commission, which is independent of the government and the judiciary, can impart transparency and credibility to the…
Sr Civil Judge Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal Caught Red Handed Taking Bribe Sent In Judicial Remand
The CBI on Thursday arrested senior civil judge Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal on bribery charges. She was remanded in 14-day judicial…
Judicial system poses challenge to marginalised sections
Sharing his experience in the court room, Ramon Magsaysay award winner Bezwada Wilson said judiciary is as inaccessible to the…
CJAR Demands In-House Enquiry Against Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy For Alleged Atrocities Against Dalits
In a letter addressed to the Chief Justice of India, the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms has sought initiation…
Alleging Dalit atrocity, top advocate Prashan Bhushan seeks Supreme Court CJ intervention against Andhra judge
Senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan, convenor, Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR), has created a flutter in India’s…
SC Dismisses Plea For A New Body For Judges Appointment Saying It Cannot Amend Constitution
The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL by National Lawyers’ Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms which sought a new…
Truth and openness, no matter how uncomfortable, are better than gossip
Former SC judge Justice Ruma Pal tells Arghya Sengupta why she believes there’s merit in Justice Chelameswar’s insistence on the…
Amid slogans on progress, need to give judiciary more judges: CJI
September 12, 2016 Chief Justice of India T S Thakur Sunday reiterated the urgent need to increase the number of…
No Muslim judge in Supreme Court, first time in 11 years
September 6, 2016 Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla, elevated respectively in December and April in…
Ex-CJI RM Lodha warns, weighs in over collegium: Justice Chelameswar has a point
September 4, 2016 Even as Chief Justice of India T S Thakur on Saturday said that differences among the judges…
Supreme Court collegium rejects 11 lawyers for Allahabad high court
September 6, 2016 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India T S Thakur, has rejected…
Why a Sitting Judge of the Supreme Court is Fighting to Reform the Collegium
September 04, 2016 Justice Chelameswar says the practice of not keeping records of collegium meetings hurts the judiciary’s credibility and its relations with the executive.…
Justice Chelameswar and Transparency in the judiciary: An Open Letter to CJI
Subject : Justice Chelameswar and Transparency in the judiciary. 5 September, 2016 Justice T.S. Thakur, Chief Justice of India. Dear…
The road to genuine reform
September 2, 2016 The only way to break the executive-judiciary impasse is to make public future correspondence on the Memorandum…
Chief Justice Thakur lashes out at PM Modi’s silence on Judicial Appointments
Chief Justice of India TS Thakur today used the Independence Day function at the Supreme Court premises to lash out…
Appointment of judges: Break logjam soon or we will step in, CJI tells govt
The CJI’s anguish came on a day when the Rajya Sabha was informed by the government that 478 vacancies are…
Whole system is collapsing, says Supreme Court about vacancies in high courts
The top court also expressed unhappiness about the transfer and appointment of judges The Supreme Court today expressed unhappiness…
This is what the Supreme Court said about the Delhi Judicial Services exam
The Supreme Court of India today disposed of the petitions relating to the Delhi Judicial Service Exam of 2014. The…
Delhi Judicial Service Examination: SC issues Guidelines for making the process more transparent
July 26, 2016 Supreme Court of India Today has issued some important Guidelines for making the process of selecting the…
Access to Justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under Article 14 & 21 of Constitution: SC Constitution Bench
The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has held that access to Justice is a Fundamental Right guaranteed to citizens…
First paperless e-court to start functioning in Hyderabad High Court
July 18, 2016 First paperless e-court in High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, common High court for the states of…
Govt. directs stringent scrutiny of collegium recommendations, puts 44 appointments to Allahabad HC on hold
The Narendra Modi Government has reportedly directed the Intelligence Bureau to carry out a “more stringent” background check on all names recommended for elevation by the collegium.
Appointment of HC Judges: Government forwards 78 names to Supreme Court Collegium
July 12, 2016 With the High Courts of the country functioning at around 55% of their total approved strength, the…
Govt puts 44 names mooted for Allahabad HC judges on hold
The Centre has put on hold the appointment of 44 judges for the Allahabad high court, sent to it by the high court collegium in April.
Ending impunity under AFSPA
“Accountability is a facet of the rule of law.” This established legal principle has acquired fresh significance after the Supreme…
Supreme Court Sets Aside Contempt Proceedings Against Outlook Journalists
07/07/2016 New Delhi: On June 30, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and Rohinton Fali Nariman set aside the…
PIL on Clinical trial of anti-diarrhea vaccine Rotavac: SC issues Notice to Centre, DBT and CMC Vellore [Read Petition]
July 5, 2016 Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre, Department of Bio-Technology (DBT) and Christian Medical College, Vellore…
Government says no to crucial objections of Supreme Court collegium
The collegium, while returning the government’s draft, was of the view that it was an attempt by the government to circumvent judicial pronouncements and settled law on appointments in the higher judiciary.
Supreme Court collegium objects to clause giving veto power to Centre in appointing judges
A clause in the Centre's new draft Memorandum of Procedure for the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and high courts gives the government the right to reject any recommendation made by the apex court collegium if it feels that the choice is not in favour of national interest.
Teary Chief Justice Tells Modi He Must Help Reduce Burden on Judiciary
The Chief Justice of India, T. S. Thakur became emotional on April 24 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lamenting his government's "inaction" in raising the number of judges from 21,000 to 40,000 to handle mounting cases, saying, "you cannot shift the entire burden on the judiciary".
Jaitley’s Claim of the Judiciary Destroying the Legislature is Unjustified and Dangerous
I was shocked to read Arun Jaitley's statement in the Rajya Sabha on May 11 (2016), in which he said that the judiciary is destroying the edifice of India's legislature "step by step, brick by brick." He did not stop there; he chose to continue accusing the judiciary of "misadventure," suggesting that this is not in the "interests of Indian democracy."
Centre rejects collegium’s recommendation for High Court Chief Justice twice
The Government has reportedly rejected a recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium for appointment as the Chief Justice of a High Court for the second time.
Madras Lawyers protest against Disciplinary Rules
Lawyers from more than 135 Bar Associations in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have participated in a rally organised by Madras High Court Advocates' Association in Chennai, demanding the withdrawal of new Amendments introduced by Madras High Court in the Disciplinary Rules under Advocates Act.