23 names reiterated by SC collegium for appointment as HC judges pending with govtTwo of the names -- one for appointment as judge of the Karnataka HC and the other for appointment as judge of the Jammu and Kashmir HC -- ...
02 Jan, 2022, 03.35 PM IST
Govt yet to decide on 12 names reiterated by SC collegium for appointment as judgesOn different occasions, the government had returned these names to the Supreme Court collegium with a request to reconsider its recommendat...
17 Oct, 2021, 03.01 PM IST
Appointment of 13 Allahabad HC judges on holdTo become a High Court judge, an advocate must have an average net professional annual income of Rs 7 lakh in the preceding five years befo...
09 Sep, 2019, 10.37 AM IST
9 collegium U-turns in 10 yrs, careers of five Supreme Court judges hitTOI inquired from people with knowledge of collegium decisions over the years and found that on nine occasions in the last decade, collegiu...
19 Jan, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
Supreme Court collegium meets 6 times in 30 days, clears 9 High Court CJs & 29 judgesThe most difficult meeting of the collegium was on August 1, when it dealt with three of its earlier recommendations for appointment of cer...
09 Nov, 2018, 10.50 AM IST
Collegium rejects Orissa chief justice’s recommendations to appoint advocates, judicial officers as HC JudgesThe recommendations were among the last files cleared by outgoing Odisha chief justice Vineet Saran on May 18 this year, who has been appoi...
05 Nov, 2018, 06.54 AM IST
Orissa collegium cleared names despite objectionsThe recommendations were among the last files cleared by outgoing CJ Vineet Saran on May 15, who has since been appointed a Supreme Court j...
23 Aug, 2018, 07.46 AM IST
Government gives collegium ‘proof’ of nepotism in picks for Allahabad HC judgesThe Centre has for the first time mentioned relationships of advocates with sitting and retired high court and apex court judges in at leas...
01 Aug, 2018, 10.46 AM IST
Is Karnan’s selection as HC judge a reflection on collegium system?Justice Karnan's name figured among the 14 selected in September 2008 by the Madras HC collegium comprising then Chief Justice A K Ganguly ...
10 May, 2017, 04.32 PM IST
Supreme Court collegium clears record 51 names for HC judge postsNever before has the SC collegium recommended 51 names within a span of 10 days to the government though the pendency has been steadily mou...
16 Apr, 2017, 08.26 AM IST
‘Why can’t collegium fill the 7 vacancies in Supreme Court?’Once the government has security and other clearances in place it forwards them to the SC collegium for a final view. Appointments are noti...
01 Dec, 2016, 12.47 PM IST
Yet to receive recommendations for vacancies from collegium: GovernmentThe total sanctioned strength of all HCs is 1,079 while vacancies number 430. There are seven vacancies in the SC against a strength of 31.
30 Nov, 2016, 01.24 AM IST
After Supreme Court rap, government appoints 10 judgesThe government argued that the court had itself sought an MoP after striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission.
01 Nov, 2016, 03.01 PM IST
SC collegium rejects 17 names for Allahabad HCThe HC collegium had recommended at least 44 names in April, about 30 of them practising lawyers, for appointment as judges of the country'...
06 Sep, 2016, 10.37 AM IST
Women judges make up just 10% of HCs' strengthA list of 44 names recommended by the Allahabad high court collegium recently for appointment as judges has only two women candidates.
29 Aug, 2016, 11.23 AM IST
SC collegium rejects 38 names for High Court judgesThe names were vetted and cleared by the Centre, though the decision is also an adverse comment on the high court selections.
09 Apr, 2016, 11.10 AM IST
SC collegium cleared men of 'doubtful integrity' as HC judges in 2001The Chief Justice of India-headed collegium had in 2001 forced the then NDA government to appoint two men of “doubtful integrity" as high c...
19 Jun, 2015, 11.13 AM IST