Political Science
Political Science
Political Science
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PROJECT FILE
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(HEENA CHATTANI)
INDEX
Judiciary as the 3rd Organ
The judicial (court) system of
India
The Supreme Court and its
Judges
The Chief Justice of India
The pre-requisites to be a CJI
The uncodified trends (also
when not followed)
The process of appointment
The current CJI
Review on his major decisions
Observation and Conclusion
Bibliography
JUDICIARY AS THE 3 RD
THE PRE-REQUISITES TO
BE A CJI
The Convention
The outgoing CJI recommends his
successor a practice, which
is strictly based on seniority.
Seniority, however, is not
defined by age, but by the
number of years a judge has been
serving in the top court of the
country.
The government’s role
The Central government has no
role to play in the appointment
of the CJI except for the Union
Law Minister seeking the
recommendation from the
incumbent CJI, before sending it
to the Prime Minister.
THE PROCESS OF
APPOINTMENT
Dhananjaya Yashwant
Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959)
is an Indian judge who is serving
as the 50th and current Chief
Justice of India. He is a former ex
officio executive chairman
of National Legal Services
Authority whilst being J1 (or the
senior-most judge after the chief
justice) of the Supreme Court of
India. In addition, he is a former
chief justice of the Allahabad High
Court and a former judge of
the Bombay High Court.
Son of India's longest-serving
Chief Justice, Y. V. Chandrachud,
he was educated at Delhi
University and Harvard
University before practising
for Sullivan & Cromwell and
in Bombay High Court. He became a
judge at the Bombay High Court and
then the chief justice of Allahabad
High Court.
A liberal judge, he has been part
of benches that delivered landmark
judgments such as Privacy
verdict and Sabarimala case. He has
visited the universities
of Mumbai, Oklahoma,
Harvard, Yale and others as a
professor.
He succeeded Justice Uday Umesh
Lalit on November 9, 2022 as
the chief justice of India (at the
age of 62 years, 11 months and 29
days) before which his nomination
was challenged on the grounds
of conflict of interest. A bench
headed by Justice Uday Umesh
Lalit dismissed the plea a week
before Chandrachud's oath-taking
ceremony.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Constitution at Work
(NCERT Class-11)
Livelaw.in
Wikipedia.com
Cnbctv18.com