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8th Pay Commission deadline extension: Employee bodies can now submit their memorandum till May 31, 2026The 8th Pay Commission has extended the deadline for memorandum submission to May 31, 2026, a month after the NC-JCM requested the extensio...
SC cautions HCs against growing tendency to publicly criticise subordinate judicial officersThe Supreme Court has cautioned high courts against publicly criticizing subordinate judicial officers, emphasizing their role as guardians...
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...
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...
Rijiju to meet state law ministers next month on judicial infrastructureUnion Law Minister Kiren Rijiju will meet state law ministers next month in an attempt to improve judicial infrastructure in the country af...
Cabinet extends by 5 years centrally-sponsored scheme for developing infra for judiciaryAn official statement said that in the extended term, it would continue from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2026 during which Rs 9,000 crore wo...
Time to set up all-India judicial services: Law MinisterThe Minister said that time has come for setting up all- India judicial services and the examinations can be conducted by the UPSC.
Lower courts short of 5k judges as no suitable candidatesThere are only 17,576 court rooms/court halls and only 14,363 residential units available for district and subordinate courts in the countr...
Lower courts: India has more sanctioned judges and less court roomsIt says that this is against 22,288 sanctioned strength of judicial officers/judges of district and subordinate courts in the country.
Nine high courts oppose all-India service for lower judiciaryThe document, sent to all members of the parliamentary consultative committee on law and justice, also states that most of the 24 high cour...
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...
Unique IDs to track work of 17,000 judgesThe National Informatics Centre (NIC) is currently rolling out the upgraded software, the case information system (CIS) 2.0 version, for th...
Lower courts face shortage of over 5000 judgesLatest data made available by the Law Ministry shows that there is a shortage of 5,111 judicial officers who run subordinate courts across ...
Verify complaints against subordinate judges before action: TS Thakur, CJIChief Justice of India TS Thakur has directed all the high courts not to take any action on complaints against judicial officers in subordi...
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.
Review of service conditions in judiciary: SC notice to CentreSC sought the govt's response on a plea seeking setting up of a judicial commission to review the service conditions of members of the subo...
Cases pending in Bombay High Court on a rise, reveals RTITotal 8,19,184 (fresh) cases were instituted from January 2010 to June 2015 while 7,80,763 cases were disposed of by all benches of HC, it ...
MHAA asks Chief Justice to act on 175 subordinate court judicial officersA resolution to the effect was passed in the General Body meeting held under the Presidentship of RC Paulkanagaraj the president of MHAA.
2.68 crore cases pending in lower courts: GovernmentA total of 2.68 crore cases were pending in district and subordinate courts in the country and 44.56 lakh cases were pending in high courts...
Judges to be rewarded for deciding cases older than 5 yearsThe law ministry is in touch with all the high courts on reworking of the appraisal system.