New Delhi: In a significant step to tackle mounting cases, a conference of chief ministers and chief justices of high courts today adopted a resolution to invoke a constitutional provision to appoint retired judicial officers
New Delhi: Having faced resentment on part of jurists regarding certain provisions of the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill that sought to introduce a system to probe complaints of "misbehaviour and incapacity" against judges of the
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today stayed the Gujarat High Court order issuing notices to its sitting and former judges and also a sitting apex court judge over the allotment of residential plots to them
New Delhi: The new law on appointment of judges should not be seen as "good or bad" and rather tested on the proposition that whether it conforms to the basic structure of the Constitution or
New Delhi: Amid allegations of favouritism in the Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) exam conducted last year, records show that at least 65 sitting judicial officers from 11 states failed the exam.The latest revelations have raised
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today tersely told the Centre that appointment of judges in higher judiciary is a "serious" business and cannot be left either to the "hit-and-trial" method or to the mercy of
New Delhi: The National Judicial Appointments Commission, whose constitutional validity has been challenged, will not make fresh appointments of judges to higher judiciary till the issue is settled, the government today told the Supreme Court.The
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday did not hear a batch of petitions challenging the National Judicial Appointment Commission replacing the collegium system for appointing judges as it will first decide whether Justice J.S.
New Delhi: The government has put on hold the execution of new law on the appointment of judges to the country's top courts.According to Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, there will not be any new
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today refused to fix any cooling off period for judges to take up government assignments after retirement, an issue which has been widely debated after former CJI P Sathasivam took
New Delhi: A court here on Monday said judges are not "caged parrots" while rejecting a plea seeking further direction to probe the role of former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in the railway bribery
Cuttack, June 19: Three additional judges of Orissa High Court are scheduled to be sworn in here tomorrow, High Court Registrar (General) K P Das said.With this, the number of Orissa High Court judges would
New Delhi, Apr 17: Chief Justice of Delhi High Court D. Murugesan will Wednesday administer the oath of office to the eight new judges.The new judges include five practicing lawyers from the bar, three trial
London, Nov 5: British reality show "The X Factor" boss Simon Cowell wants all the original judges back on the show to boost its ratings.The singing reality show started in 2004 with Cowell, singer Sharon
New Delhi, Sep 30: Batting for judicial reforms, BJPtoday said a two-year “cooling off” period was necessary before judges were appointed to tribunals.BJP President Nitin Gadkari alleged that long before judges retire, the tribunal they
New Delhi, Aug 25: Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia today said judges should not govern the country or evolve policies and should apply the enforceability test on some verdicts like making “right to
New Delhi, Aug 17: Press Council of India chief Justice (retd) Markandey Katju has opposed Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia's suggestion that government must not tinker with the independence of judiciary.In an interview
New Delhi, Oct 10: Justices Dipak Misra and Jasti Chelameswar were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, raising the strength of the apex court to 28.Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia administered the
New Delhi, Sept 13: The Supreme Court has ruled that judicial officers can be compulsorily retired for “doubtful integrity” even before they attain the age of 50 years. A bench of justices J M Panchal
New Delhi, Mar 10: Judges should not have inflated ego and flaunt their powers unnecessarily by summoning high-ranking officials like Chief Secretaries or Principal Secretaries as it would eventually lead to the collapse of the
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