Performance appraisal will be used as a standard for appointing chief justices of high courts and Supreme Court judges, as per the new Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), finalised last week by a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, according to The Indian Express.
The new memorandum proposes that the “prime criteria” for the appointment of judges in the Supreme Court should be “seniority as chief justice/ judge of the high court” as well as “merit and integrity”.
The quashing of the NJAC by the SC and the subsequent procedure to draft the MoP has resulted in a stalemate, which resulted in zero appointments in the past year.
Indian Express reports that no judge has been appointed in the apex court for over a year owing to the stalemate over validity of the NJAC and the subsequent procedure to draft the MoP.
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