{"id":229761,"date":"2023-03-04T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=229761"},"modified":"2023-03-04T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:47:00","slug":"supreme-court-eases-norm-for-selection-of-consumer-court-presidents-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-eases-norm-for-selection-of-consumer-court-presidents-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court eases norm for selection of consumer court presidents, members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cSupreme Court eases norm for selection of consumer court presidents, members\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>4th March 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has used its extraordinary powers under Article 142 to attract younger talent to preside over consumer courts by reducing the mandatory professional experience from 20 to 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Article 142 of the Constitution?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/post\/detail\/Factly262-ExplainedWhat-is-Article-142-invoked-by-SC-to-give-land-for-a-mosque-1573477623?useful=2\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was the case about?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India released the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consumer Protection Rules, 2020 that govern the appointment of the President and members of State and District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rules prescribed a minimum experience of not less than 20 years for the appointment of the president and members of the State Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The High Court had held that the minimum experience condition is in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution and quashed them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This judgment prompted the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs to file the appeal before the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What did the Supreme Court rule?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court said that the High Court was right in striking down the rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It said as per Article 233 of the Constitution, a lawyer needs to have only 7 years of practice as an advocate in the High Court. Under the circumstances providing 20 years\u2019 experience is rightly held to be unconstitutional, arbitrary and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSupreme Court eases norm for selection of consumer court presidents, members\u201d published in The Hindu on 4th March 2023. What is the News? The Supreme Court has used its extraordinary powers under Article 142 to attract younger talent to preside over consumer courts by reducing the mandatory&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-eases-norm-for-selection-of-consumer-court-presidents-members\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court eases norm for selection of consumer court presidents, members<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-229761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":10,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698330345},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}