September 04, 2016 Justice Chelameswar says the practice of not keeping records of collegium meetings hurts the judiciary’s credibility and its relations with the executive. New Delhi: Justice Jasti Chelameswar’s decision to make public his problems with the collegium – the Supreme Court group that meets to recommend appointments and transfers of
Subject : Justice Chelameswar and Transparency in the judiciary. 5 September, 2016 Justice T.S. Thakur, Chief Justice of India. Dear Sir, I am writing this letter in the spirit of seeking an improvement in the working of the judiciary, and not as an exercise of criticism. India has
PANEL DISCUSSION ON APPOINTMENTS TO THE HIGHER AND SUBORDINATE JUDICIARY 31ST AUGUST 2016, INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE PRESS NOTE The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms co-organized an important panel discussion on appointments to the Higher and Subordinate Judiciary, on the 31st of August
September 2, 2016 The only way to break the executive-judiciary impasse is to make public future correspondence on the Memorandum of Procedure. This will be a precursor to infusing transparency in judicial appointments The Chief Justice of India’s (CJI) high-octane laments about vacancies caused due to the
