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The five-judge Supreme Court collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana, met Tuesday and discussed kickstarting the process of appointment of the next Chief Justice as the CJI is set to retire on August 26. Besides the CJI, the collegium includes Justices U U Lalit, D Y Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abdul Nazeer. It is learnt that the collegium did discuss some names for appointments to the SC but there is also a view among some judges that it would be more prudent to wait until the next CJI takes over. Also Read | It is learnt that the collegium is likely to meet again Wednesday. As per the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), the document governing the process of appointment of judges and appointment of the CJI, the Law Minister asks the outgoing Chief Justice of India to recommend the next CJI. The MoP states that the CJI should be “the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court considered fit to hold the office.” Although the MoP says that the CJI’s views must be sought “at the appropriate time” and does not specify a timeline for the process, it normally takes place a month before the retirement of the incumbent CJI. Also Read | Justice Lalit will be the second CJI after Justice SM Sikri who was appointed directly from the Bar as a judge of the Supreme Court. Justice Sikri was CJI from January 1971 to April 1973. Born in 1957, Justice Lalit enrolled as an advocate in 1983 before the Bombay High Court. Before being appointed a judge of the SC in 2014, he appear...

NEW DELHI: Justice DY Chandrachud was formally named as the 50th Chief Justice of India by CJI UU Lalit at a gathering of all Supreme Court judges on Tuesday. The CJI handed over the copy of his letter of recommendation to Justice Chandrachud, who is set to become the 50th Chief Justice of India on November 9. Elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016, Justice Chandrachud is the son of the longest serving CJI Y V Chandrachud who was the head of the judiciary from February 22, 1978 to July 11, 1985. CJI Lalit will demit office on November 8, after a brief tenure of 74 days. A day later, Justice Chandrachud will oath as the next CJI. CJI Lalit-led collegium ends bid to appoint Supreme Court judges The CJI U U Lalit-led collegium has rejected a proposal for appointment of four Supreme Court judges while officially admitting that two apex court judges — Justices D Y Chandrachud and S A Nazir — had objected to the selection process of new judges through the circulation of a letter rather than Justice Chandrachud would have a tenure of two years and demit office on November 10, 2024. The Supreme Court judges retire at the age of 65. According to the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), which governs the process of appointment of judges in the higher judiciary, the outgoing CJI initiates the process of naming the successor after getting a communication from the Law ministry. The MoP says the senior-most judge of the apex court is considered fit to hold the office of the ...

Chief Justice of As per convention, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court becomes CJI. Upon recommendation by CJI Lalit and appointment by the President, Justice Chandrachud would assume charge as the 50th Chief Justice of India on November 9 for a little more than two years until November 10, 2024. How is the Successor Named? While the Constitution of India does not mention any procedure for appointing the CJI, the naming of the successor relies on convention. Article 124 (1) of the Constitution merely says, ““there shall be a Supreme Court of India consisting of a Chief Justice of India.” It also says that every Judge of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President. As per convention, the outgoing CJI recommends his successor, strictly based on seniority. The Union Law Minister then forwards the recommendation to the Prime Minister who, in turn, advises the President. Seniority in this case is not defined by age, but by the number of years a judge has been serving in the top court of the country, a report by Moneycontrol says. In cases where two judges have the same seniority, other factors, like who among the two has more years of experience in the High Court or whether any of them was nominated from the bar directly, or who took the oath first, come into play, the report says. The Procedure The actual procedure to appoint the next CJI is laid out in the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), which was drafted in 1999 and is the playbook agreed upon by the governm...

BCCI vs COA: 'One state one vote' and 'cooling-off period' clauses can be reconsidered, says Supreme Court bench Justice DY Chandrachud appointed next Chief Justice of India, to take oath on 9 November However, he will only have 74 days in the chair. Here’s why. Why will the next CJI retire in 74 days? NDTV. The next in line to be CJI after Justice Lalit to head the judiciary is Justice DY Chandrachud. In India, the retirement age of a Supreme Court judge is 65 years. In the United States, judges can work for a lifetime. Judges in the United Kindom and Canada retire at the age of 75 years and 70 years respectively, reports India Today. How is the CJI picked? The Consitution does not spell out the procedure for appointing the top judge of the Supreme Court. Article 124 (1) of the Constitution only says, “There shall be a Supreme Court of India consisting of a Chief Justice of India.” Under Clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution, the Chief Justice of India and the judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President. Since there is no provision in the Constitution, the procedure to appoint the CJI is based on convention. What’s the convention? The outgoing CJI recommends his successor, a practice which is based strictly on seniority. The recommendation is forwarded by the Union law minister to the prime minister, who in turn, advises the president. After a CJI retires at the age of 65, the seniormost judge in the Supreme Court is elevated to the position. Howeve...

By Nalini Sharma: For several years now, there has been an ongoing debate about whether there ought to be a fixed tenure for the Chief Justice of India. In July 2014, the Law Commission recommended that the Chief Justice of India should get a fixed tenure of minimum two years in case their tenure as CJI was less than two years. During the course of the next eight years, nine judges of the Supreme Court will assume the highest judicial office in the country and take oath as the Chief Justices of India. Here’s a brief insight into who the next nine CJIs will be if the norm on appointment through seniority is followed. Justice UU Lalit Immediately after CJI Ramana’s retirement, Justice UU Lalit, currently the second senior-most judge in the Supreme Court, will take oath as the 49 th Chief Justice of India. Justice Lalit will serve as the CJI for a short period of less than three months from August 27, 2022 to November 8, 2022. Justice Lalit is only the second judge to be elevated directly from the Bar who will go on to become the Chief Justice of India. The first CJI who was elevated directly from the Bar was the 13th Chief Justice of India, Justice SM Sikri in 1971. During his tenure as a Supreme Court judge, Justice Lalit has been part of several important cases, including Triple Talaq, Corrupt Electoral Practices, Misuse of the SC/ST Act, Padmanabhaswamy Temple etc. Justice DY Chandrachud Justice DY Chandrachud practiced as a lawyer in the Supreme Court and various High Co...

The government has initiated the process of appointment of the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) by seeking the recommendation from present CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde, who will retire on April 23. Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is learnt to have written to CJI Bobde on Friday, asking him to recommend the name of the next CJI, as is the practice under the Memorandum of Procedure for Appointment of Chief Justice of India. New Delhi, Feb 22 (ANI): Chief Justice of India SA Bobde addresses at International Judicial Conference, in New Delhi on Saturday. (ANI Photo) (ANI) As per protocol, the senior most judge after the CJI is entitled to hold this constitutional office. But the procedure requires the law minister to seek the recommendation of the outgoing CJI “at the appropriate time” for appointing the next Chief Justice of India. This recommendation has to come at least a month before the vacancy arises. Justice NV Ramana is the next in line to become the CJI. On appointment, he has a long tenure as CJI for over 16 months. Before making the recommendation, if the CJI has any doubt about the fitness of the senior most judge to hold the highest judicial office of the country, Article 124(2) of the Constitution allows the CJI to consult other judges of the top court. “After receipt of the recommendation of the Chief Justice of India, the Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs will put up the recommendation to the Prime Minister who will advise the President in t...

• Also read in: • Principle of seniority and next CJI Chandrachud’s ‘5+1’ collegium During Justice Chandrachud's two-year tenure, the collegium he will head will potentially make as many as 18 recommendations for appointment of judges to the Supreme Court. It will be an unusual collegium: instead of five members, it will have six. The collegium system of appointing judges evolved through three significant verdicts of the Supreme Court, known as the First, Second, and Third Judges Cases. The Constitution of India does not mention the collegium system; however, these three cases established that the collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India will have primacy in the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary. The Supreme Court collegium is headed by the CJI and comprises four other senior-most judges of the court. This collegium makes recommendations to the government for appointment of judges to the SC and of Chief Justices of High Courts, and the transfers of HC judges. A separate three-member collegium, headed by the CJI and comprising the two senior-most judges of the SC makes recommendations for appointment of judges to HCs. What are the Judges Cases? First Judges Case: In S P Gupta v Union of India (1981), a seven-judge Bench gave the Executive the last word on the appointment of judges. Interpreting Articles 124(2) and 217(1) of the Constitution, which deal with the appointments of judges to the SC and the HCs respectively, the SC ruled that the government can ...

Chief Justice of India-designate Uday Umesh Lalit, who is all set to assume charge on August 27, made three major announcements on Friday regarding the reforms he will try to bring in during his short 74-days tenure as the next CJI. While, speaking at the farewell function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association for the outgoing CJI NV Ramana, Justice Lalit announced the three main areas that he is going to prioritise during his tenure as 49th Chief Justice of India. A day ahead of taking over as the next CJI, the Chief Justice of India-designate listed the three areas for his innings as the next CJI. He said that during his 74-days-long tenure, he is going to focus on bringing more transparency to the listing system, a system for freely mentioning urgent matters before respective benches, and one Constitution Bench functioning throughout the year. Mentioning his third area of focus, he added, "Listing of matters before the Constitution benches and matters which are specially referred to benches of three judges...we will strive hard to say that yes we will always have at least one Constitution Bench functioning all throughout the year." Justice Lalit's 3 priorities as CJI Elaborating on his priorities and focus points ahead of his tenure as the Chief justice of India, he said that taking a cue from CJI Ramana, it is important for us to strive hard to make the process of listing in the top court as clear and transparent as possible. We must focus on bringing more tra...

New Delhi: Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday said that he had received a letter from the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana nominating his next possible successor for the post. Chief Justice Ramana has recommended Justice UU Lalit's name as the next Chief Justice of India. "I have received a letter from the CJI nominating his next possible successor. We are following a process. In due course, we will act. Formalities are underway. I hope that everything will go smoothly," said Kiren Rijiju. The nomination came a day after CJI Ramana received the letter from Mr Rijiju seeking his recommendation for the next Chief Justice of India. "The Secretariat of the Chief Justice of India has received a communication on August 3, 2022, from the Minister of Law and Justice requesting the CJI to recommend the name of his successor," stated the information shared by the top court. Chief Justice Ramana will retire on August 26 and Justice Lalit will be sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India on August 27. He would have a short tenure of 74 days.