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Title

Appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of India : transparency, accountability, and independence / edited by Arghya Sengupta, Ritwika Sharma ; foreword by Justice Jasti Chelameswar.

Publication

• New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Sengupta, Arghya, 1984-
• Sharma, Ritwika,

Description

xxiv, 299 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association v. Union of India [(2016) 5 SCC 1], a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court struck down the 99th Amendment to the Constitution and the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act, 2014, which replaced the existing collegium system with the NJAC, a new bipartisan model for appointing judges. This edited volume uses the judgment in the NJAC Case as a springboard to address the politics, doctrine, and developments pertaining to judicial appointments in India. It critically examines fundamental constitutional concepts such as rule of law, separation of powers, basic structure, and judicial independence which formed the basis of the judgment. It provides a rich and detailed history of post-Independence appointment of judges to locate the NJAC Case in its proper constitutional context. It also analyses reforms to judicial appointments in key South Asian and common law jurisdictions to understand what appointments in India might look like in the future. The volume has 21 essays across three parts--Part I provides an analysis of judicial appointments in India from the time prior to Independence to the present day, Part II analyses constitutional principles and their application in the NJAC Case, and Part III is a comparative enquiry into appointments processes in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

Subject

• India
• India. Supreme Court
• Judges > Selection and appointment > India
• Judges > Selection and appointment
• Justice, Administration of
• National Judicial Appointments Commission

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Contributed articles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

From Kania to Sarkaria : judicial appointments from 1950 to 1973 / Suchindran B.N. -- A commited judiciary : Indira Gandhi and judicial appointments / T.R. Andhyarujina -- Recovering lost ground : the case of the curious eighties / A.K. Ganguli -- The judicial collegium : issues, controversies, and the road ahead / Arun Jaitley -- A plague on both your houses : NJAC and thec risis of trust / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Judicial review and parliamentary power : reorienting the balance / K.T. Thomas -- Checks and balances revisted : the role of the executive in judicial appointments / Mukul Rohatgi -- Opening up appointments : civil society participation in the NJAC / Madhavi Divan -- The obvious foundation test : re-inventing the basic structure doctrine / Raju Ramachandran and Mythili Vijay Kumar Thallam -- Eight fatal flaws : the failings of the National Judicial Appointments Commission / Arvind Datar -- The sole route to an independent judiciary? : the primacy of judges in appointment / Gautam Bhatia -- Justice Lokur's concurring view : the future of appointments reform / Alok Prasanna Kumar -- Justice Chelameswar's dissent : reforming to preserve / Arghya Sengupta -- The NJAC case and judicial independence : conceptual and contextual safeguards / Gopal Subramananium -- Comparative law in the NJAC judgement : a missed opportunity / Suhrith Parthasarathy -- Judicialization of judicial appointments? : a response from the United Kingdom / Chintan Chandrachud -- South Africa : analysing a commission model / Chris McConnachie -- Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada : procedures and controversies / Peter McCormick -- Judicial appointments in Pakistan : The seminal case of the 18th amendment / Sameer Khosa -- Judicial appointments in Sri Lanka : a politicized trajectory / Rehan Abeyratne -- Appointments to the Supreme Court of Nepal : a new beginning / Semanta Dahal.

ISBN

• 9780199485079
• 0199485070

LCCN

2017353573

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries