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[1] [2] The NJAC would have replaced the collegium system for the appointment of judges as invoked by the Supreme Court via judicial fiat by a new system. Along with the Constitution Amendment Act, the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014, was also passed by the Parliament of India to regulate the functions of the National ...
(2) The posts of Judicial Commissioners and Additional Judicial Commissioners existed pre-Independence and continued till the enactment of CrPC in 1973 in many parts of the India. Pre-separation, these posts were held either by the members of the Indian Civil (Administrative) Services (in the level of Chief Secretary) or District Judges (in the ...
On 5 September 2013, the Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (120th Amendment) bill, 2013, which amends articles 124(2) and 217(1) of the Constitution of India, 1950, and establishes the Judicial Appointments Commission, on whose recommendation the President would appoint judges to the higher judiciary. [7] This bill never became an Act.
(1) There shall be a Commission to be known as the National Judicial Appointments Commission consisting of the following, namely:–– (a) the Chief Justice of India, Chairperson, ex officio; (b) two other senior Judges of the Supreme Court next to the Chief Justice of India ––Members, ex officio; (c) the Union Minister in charge of Law ...
The code contained significant provisions governing, policing and judicial and civil administration. Its best known provision was the Permanent Settlement [1] (or the zamindari system), which established a revenue collection scheme that lasted until the 20th century. Beginning with Bengal, the system spread over all of northern India by means ...
The proposal for an All India Judicial Service was first suggested in the Chief Justices' Conference in 1961 as a way to remove any scope for judicial or executive intervention in the appointments to the judiciary in the High Courts and the Supreme Court in India. The idea had to be shelved after some states and High Courts opposed it. [2]
The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, enacted in 1951, made several changes to the Fundamental Rights provisions of the Indian constitution.It provided means to restrict freedom of speech and expression, validation of zamindari abolition laws, and clarified that the right to equality does not bar the enactment of laws which provide "special consideration" for weaker sections of society.
Union of India [38] Struck down the 99th Amendment of the Constitution of India and the proposal of the National Judicial Appointments Commission. 1998 In re Special reference 1 [39] Reply by the Chief Justice of India to the questions raised by President of India K. R. Narayanan regarding the Collegium system. M. C. Mehta v. Kamal Nath [40] 1996