TopicCollegium

Topic: Collegium

Why is Justice Akil Kureshi not in Supreme Court? A little bit more transparency, my lord

D.K. Singh - 6 September, 2021

People have a right to know if government’s objections to appointments were driven by larger cause of justice or political considerations.

SC Collegium approves 6 names of Karnataka HC, one of Calcutta HC as permanent judges

PTI - 19 August, 2021

Names of Justices Neranahalli Srinivasan Sanjay Gowda, Jyoti Mulimani, Nataraj Rangaswamy, Hemant Chandangoudar, Pradeep Singh Yerur & Maheshan Nagaprasanna have been approved.

India’s higher judiciary lacks professional diversity. It’s now a monopoly of lawyer-judges

Rangin Pallav Tripathy - 11 June, 2021

Of the first 25 Supreme Court judges, only three had any experience in subordinate judiciary. The collegium system has only deepened this professional homogeneity further.

120 judge proposals are stuck as SC collegium hasn’t met for over 2 months due to lockdown

Bhadra Sinha - 1 July, 2020

The collegium had last met on 20 April. An SC judge says meetings of collegium require a lot of deliberations, which are not possible on video calls.

Collegium system needs reconsideration, says former Supreme Court judge AK Sikri

Apoorva Mandhani - 1 February, 2020

Former SC Justice A.K. Sikri was speaking at launch of Chintan Chandrachud's new book 'The cases that India forgot'. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud was also present.

Collegium deliberations on judges should stay confidential, says CJI-designate Bobde

PTI - 31 October, 2019

Justice S.A. Bobde said sharing deliberations on the Collegium's rejection of candidates for higher judiciary was a matter of privacy rather than secrecy since people's reputations were at stake.

Supreme Court collegium’s 2 recent decisions have left the door wide open for tough questions

Maneesh Chhibber - 25 September, 2019

One would not be off the mark in saying that under the last few CJIs, Supreme Court collegium has ceded ground and authority to government.

MP lawyers want CJI to transfer ‘vindictive’ HC judge in line to be acting chief justice

Debayan Roy - 13 September, 2019

In a letter, 3 Madhya Pradesh lawyer associations have urged the Chief Justice of India to avoid appointing Justice Sanjay Yadav as the acting CJ.

Can disclose reason for transfers, says SC after Justice Tahilramani controversy

Debayan Roy - 12 September, 2019

The statement, issued by Supreme Court secretary general, comes days after Justice V.K. Tahilramani resigned over her transfer from Madras to Meghalaya HC.