Appointment of 20 HC judges in limbo as Centre returns files to SC for ‘reconsideration’, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] Tussle over appointments of High Court judges between the Centre and Supreme Court led collegium looks to be getting intense by day. A day after the top court objected to the Union law minister's remark,saying that the Union government was sitting on judge’s names, the Union government is reported...

Centre returns 20 files to SC Collegium regarding appointment of HC judges, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] Face off between the Centre and the Supreme Court over appointment of judges continued on Monday with the government returning 20 files and expressing "strong reservations" about the names recommended by the Collegium.The Supreme Court on Monday expressed anguish over the delay by the Centre in clearing the names...

Union law minister Kiren Rijiju on NJAC, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Reviving the debate on National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC), Union law minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday defended the NJAC Act as the “collective will of the nation” and iterated for the second time in less than 10 days that the collegium system of appointing judges is opaque.The...