SC COLLEGIUM

Article Title: SC COLLEGIUM

07-03-2025

Socio - Political Movements in Tamil Nadu Current Affairs Analysis

The system of appointment and transfer of judges that has evolved through judgments of the SC, and not by an Act of Parliament or by a provision of the Constitution

Articles 124(2) and 217 of the Indian Constitution deal with the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and High Courts

HEADS THE COLLEGIUM SYSTEM

The SC collegium is headed by the CJI (Chief Justice of India) and comprises four other senior most judges of the court.

EVOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM

First Judges Case (1981)

Second Judges Case (1993)

Third Judges Case (1998):

National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act, 2014

Fourth Judges Case (2015)