NEW DELHI:In an unprecedented step that has no legal sanctity, the Supreme Court Bar Association has set up a committee of senior advocates to shortlist deserving lawyers who could be considered by Collegiums in different high courts for recommending their names for appointment as HC Judges.
Since the judiciary usurped the Judge selection process from the executive through two landmark judgments in the 1990s, the selection of HC Judges has become a complicated process - names of eligible lawyers and judicial officers are first considered by the concerned HC collegiums and lists are sent to the Union law ministry, which simultaneously seeks the views of the Governor, the chief minister on the names and also asks the Intelligence Bureau to submit reports on each of the candidates regarding his integrity and reputation at the bar.
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Watch | Vaccination Policy Flawed, Centre Batting for Manufacturers: Former Addl Solicitor General
Mitali Mukherjee in conversation with Vikas Singh, former Additional Solicitor General of India and president Supreme Court Bar Association, on what the top court said on Centre s vaccination policy.
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In a scathing indictment of how the Central governmentâs vaccine policy has been rolled out so far, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to disclose how the sum of Rs 35,000 crore â a figure announced in the Union Budget â was spent.
In a detailed and sharply critical set of observations, the bench comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud, L.N. Rao and S. Ravindra Bhat asked for clarifications on six points including pricing, supply of vaccines and a roadmap of projected availability of vaccines till December 31. The sharpest comment on the state of affairs seemed to be this sentence where the apex court wrote: “Courts cannot be silent spectators