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JUDICIAL OFFICER VACANCIES
A total of 4,855 posts of judicial officers in district and sub-ordinate courts are vacantDistrict and subordinate courts in India face a significant shortage of judicial officers. There are 4,855 vacancies against a sanctioned s...
Judicial officers having 7 yrs of experience at Bar entitled to become ADJ under bar quota: SCThe Supreme Court has ruled that judicial officers with seven years of prior experience as advocates can be appointed as district judges. T...
Law Minister updates parliament on judicial vacancies: 2 in SC, 364 in HCs, 5245 in district courtsLaw Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal informed Parliament about current judicial vacancies, noting 2 in the Supreme Court, 364 in high courts, and...
Over 26 per cent posts of judicial officers lying vacant in subordinate judiciary in 6 states: Supreme Court toldThe affidavit filed in the apex court by senior advocate Vijay Hansaria, one of the four amicus curiae in a matter related to filling of va...
Making efforts to fill up vacancies, improve judicial infrastructure: CJI N V RamanaOur judiciary is overburdened, he said, while speaking after inaugurating the two-day Telangana State Judicial Officers Conference here. Th...
View: Judicial reform should be rooted in empirical evidence, not political prattleAIJS, cloaked as a judicial reform, is, however, a political gimmick that aims to transfer the recruitment and appointment of district judg...
Fill up vacancies in NGT expeditiously: Supreme Court to selection panelThe top court was told that the government had already published advertisement for filling up nine vacancies for judicial members vide noti...
Triple talaq law, increasing number of SC judges high points of law ministry in 2019The ban on the practice of instant triple talaq, making it a penal offence and the increase in the strength of Supreme Court judges were tw...
SC rejects plea for centralised mechanism for appointment of judges in lower courtsThe court has also sought the time frame from the states and the high courts for completing the recruitment drive and construction of court...
Shortage of 4,000 courtrooms even if all judge posts filled upLower courts currently have pendency of 2.72 crore cases, and judges’ vacancies are seen as one of the reasons.
Supreme Court fast-tracks judge selection processThe SC is asking HCs and state governments to give a projection about the additional manpower and infrastructure required to tackle the hug...
Government proposes NEET-like exam to recruit judges in subordinate courtsThe proposal comes close on the heels of several states, including some ruled by the BJP, opposing the formation of an all-India judicial s...
Centre seeks parties' views on all-India judicial serviceLaw Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had touched the issue at a recent meeting of parliamentary consultative committee on Law and Justice, whic...
Supreme Court seeks states' views on centralised system to recruit judgesIt had said that district courts across the country were grappling with a backlog of 2,81,25,066 civil and criminal cases in the period bet...
Give infra and staff to judiciary to clear pendency of cases: Bombay High CourtThe observation came from a bench of justices S C Dharmadhikari and B P Colabawalla, who were hearing a petition filed by Sales Tax Tribuna...
Number of judges in lower courts goes up, so do pending casesThe selection and appointment of judges in subordinate courts (lower courts) is the responsibility of state governments and high courts.
- SC upholds judicial recruitment in UP
The Supreme Court has upheld the legality of judicial recruitment in Uttar Pradesh in 2008.