{"id":117539,"date":"2021-07-09T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=117539"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:00:12","slug":"collegium-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/collegium-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Collegium system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collegium system<\/p>\n<p>About: The collegium system is <strong>headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court<\/strong>. India\u2019s Constitution originally stipulated that the judges of the Supreme Court and high courts would be appointed by the President based on a process of \u201cconsultation\u201d with senior judges. The present collegium system emerged later based on three key rulings.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle\">\n<li>In 1981, the <strong>\u201cFirst Judges Case<\/strong>\u201d ruled that the process of consultation with the CJI and other judges did not require a consensus about recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>In 1993, the \u201c<strong>Second Judges Case<\/strong>\u201d overturned this decision and introduced the collegium system, arguing that \u201cconsultation\u201d required \u201cconcurrence.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In 1998, the \u201c<strong>Third Judges Case<\/strong>\u201d ruled that the collegium would be a five-member body, establishing the system that is most similar to the one currently being followed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collegium system About: The collegium system is headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court. India\u2019s Constitution originally stipulated that the judges of the Supreme Court and high courts would be appointed by the President based on a process of \u201cconsultation\u201d with senior judges. The present collegium&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/collegium-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collegium system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10314,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}