Platform to assess judges before appointing to Supreme Court
A young team of distinguished scholars, interns and law researchers had prepared a “broad platform” to assess every one of the “top 50 judges” in the country who would be considered for appointment as judges of the Supreme Court.
One of the criticisms about the collegium system is that we have no factual data to evaluate people whom we are considering for appointment to the Supreme Court.
The idea was to make the process of appointments to the court transparent by identifying definite parameters of selection even though the process cannot be held in the public realm.
The team would sift through the candidates’ judgments, their quality, and so on.
However, it did not specify whether the “top” judges would be identified from the first 50 of the senior-most High Court judges or whether the candidates would be picked based on their merit and performance.
Now the appointments are made on the basis of seniority, regional representation and merit while following a Memorandum of Procedure moulded through the Three Judges Cases.
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