{"id":29438,"date":"2018-10-26T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29438"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:07:52","slug":"collective-assertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/collective-assertion\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective assertion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/collective-assertion\/article23874647.ece\">Collective assertion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collegium system; SC<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the five-member collegium has <strong>unanimously<\/strong> \u00a0agreed <strong>\u201cin principle\u201d <\/strong>that it would reiterate its previous recommendation on appointing the chief justice of the Uttarakhand high court, K.M.Joseph, as a judge of the apex court.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>With the\u00a0reiteration, the Center will be <strong>bound to act on the resolution of the collegium<\/strong> and it may <strong>no longer be possible to delay<\/strong> Justice K.M. Joseph\u2019s elevation to the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<li>It is to be noted that the collegium\u2019s reiteration will not bring into account only the name of K.M.Joseph.<\/li>\n<li>His name will reach the Center along with recommendation of other chief justices of high courts for appointment as Supreme Court judges.<\/li>\n<li>This is because the collegium wants to address the concern the Centre has indirectly raised about the <strong>need for fair representation to all high courts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>a.) Previously, Justice Joseph\u2019s appointment was objected by the Center on the ground that he was <strong>not senior enough<\/strong> and \u2018<strong>excessive representation\u2019<\/strong> from relatively <strong>\u2018small\u2019 high court (the Kerala High Court)<\/strong> may get after his appointment.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The collegium\u2019s recommendation of names for appointment as Supreme Court judges also bring a major challenge, i.e. the <strong>propriety of the Centre<\/strong> holding back one or two names from a list of recommendations and clearing the rest.<\/li>\n<li>Selectively approving some names from a batch of recommendations can make a difference to the seniority of the judges concerned, especially when <strong>seniority <\/strong>is the sole consideration for appointment of the Chief Justice as well as membership of the collegium.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collective assertion Collegium system; SC News: Recently, the five-member collegium has unanimously \u00a0agreed \u201cin principle\u201d that it would reiterate its previous recommendation on appointing the chief justice of the Uttarakhand high court, K.M.Joseph, as a judge of the apex court. Important facts: With the\u00a0reiteration, the Center will be bound to act on the resolution of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/collective-assertion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collective assertion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704757210},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29438","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}