Supreme Court relaxes rules for High Courts to appoint ad-hoc judges
Each HC should keep the appointment to two to five ad-hoc judges and not exceed 10% of the total sanctioned strength, the ...
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SC allows HC to appoint ad-hoc judges to deal with case backlog
Considering a backlog of over 18 lakh criminal cases, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the high courts to appoint ad-hoc judges, not exceeding the 10 per cent of the court’s total sanctioned ...
Supreme Court allows appointment of retired judges to High Courts on an ad hoc basis
The Supreme Court said its directions in the April 2021 judgement, which spoke about the 20 per cent vacancy requirement, be ...
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SC allows high courts to rope in retd judges to clear criminal appeals backlog. 18 lakh cases pending
A 3-judge special bench, led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna, issued the direction, supplementing SC’s 2021 judgment that mooted idea of ad-hoc judges under Article 224A of the Constitution.