Amid a clamour for legislative revamp of the judges-selecting-judges system, fuelled by Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s statements, CJI B R Gavai has said no reform in the collegium system could be at the “cost of judicial independence” and that judiciary should retain its primacy in appointments to Supreme Court and high courts.At a round-table in UK…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday sought govt’s response to a PIL seeking an “independent and transparent” procedure for appointment of CAG on the lines of the one the court had devised for CVC, but not before asking, “When Constitution provides for unbridled power to executive to appoint CAG, should we rewrite that provision?” “Constitution says…
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin fired yet another salvo at the Union govt on Sunday alleging the Advocates Amendment Bill 2025 was a direct assault on the autonomy of the legal profession.In a social media post on Sunday, Stalin said though the Union govt was forced to withdraw the draft bill due to ‘spontaneous…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Lokpal order that allowed it to entertain complaints against high court judges under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.A special bench headed by Justice B R Gavai issued a notice to the Centre and others, seeking their responses in the suo motu proceedings initiated over the…
Former CJI DY Chandrachud: भारत के पूर्व मुख्य न्यायाधीश (CJI) डीवाई चंद्रचूड़ ने इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट के विवादास्पद न्यायाधीश शेखर कुमार यादव की नियुक्ति को लेकर अहम खुलासा किया है. उन्होंने स्वीकार किया कि वह शेखर यादव की नियुक्ति के खिलाफ थे और इसके लिए उन्होंने तत्कालीन CJI रंजन गोगोई को पत्र भी लिखा था. बता…
HC judges and CJs fearful of SC CollegiumNEW DELHI: In seeking an Allahabad HC judge’s personal explanation, the Supreme Court Collegium appears to have stepped around the mechanism prescribed in memorandum of procedure to deal with errant judges and impermissibly assumed supervisory powers over the High Courts.Was the judge obliged to appear before the Collegium…
NEW DELHI: Allahabad high court judge Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav‘s remark on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), calling it a measure to “eliminating unequal legal systems” has triggered controversy, with the Supreme Court intervening in the matter.Justice Yadav’s speech, made on December 8 while addressing a provincial convention of the legal cell and high court…