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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...- 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...
- Issue of checking corruption in judiciary is to be addressed by judiciary itself: Kiren RijijuComplaints and representations regarding allegation of corruption received are dealt with by the Chief Justice of India or by the chief jus...
- 5,133 vacancies in subordinate judiciary, says governmentBetween May 2014 and November this year, 44 judges were appointed to the Supreme Court. A total of 688 new judges were appointed and 583 ad...
- Law minister urges CJI to ensure mechanism to monitor quick disposal of rape casesThe minister said there are 704 fast-track courts for heinous offences and others and the government is in the process of setting up 1,123 ...
- 1,000 lower courts not updating case data on national gridIn order to bring transparency in judicial functions and reduce pendency, the government with the help of the Supreme Court had started onl...
- Vacancies in lower courts at all-time highThere are currently only 16,693 judges in subordinate courts, one of the many reasons why lower courts have more than 2.61 crore pending ca...
- 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.
- Nitish Kumar urges Centre to allocate funds to Bihar 'liberally'Nitish Kumar added that his government had already sanctioned Rs 169 crore for the expansion project of the Patna High Court.
- 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...
- Judiciary open to have more women judges: GovernmentLaw Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government will keep sensitising the judiciary in regard to appointing more women.
- Over 4,000 vacancies of judges in subordinate courtsRavi Shankar Prasad said 2,447 new court rooms were under construction, even as he assured that the government was concerned about improvin...
- 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...
- To reduce pendency, retired judges to be reappointedAll the CMs and the higher judiciary also agreed to increase the strength of subordinate judiciary by 10% every year till the judge-populat...
- 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...
- Over 1 lakh lawyers abstain from work in BiharDue to the one-day stir, over 10,000 lawyers in Patna High Court did not attend courts today while the situation was similar in district co...
- Over 1 lakh lawyers abstain from work in BiharMore than one lakh advocates across Bihar abstained from work today in support of their demand to allow state vigilance in subordinate judi...
- 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.
- Recruit judges to tackle pendency: Government to High Court chief justicessExpressing the government's concern, Prasad said at present there are 22.5% of judges' positions are vacant in subordinate judiciary.
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