Cabinet approves Amendment to remove anomalies in pensionary benefits of HC judges
9 years, 7 months ago

Cabinet approves Amendment to remove anomalies in pensionary benefits of HC judges

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The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to amend the High Court Judges Act removing anomalies in pensionary benefits of HC judges.According to the proposal, an HC Judge elevated from the bar will have his 10 years of practice as advocate added to his service tenure for calculation of pensionary benefits.Until now, a Judge’s pension was calculated on the number of his service years,. The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to amend the High Court Judges Act removing anomalies in pensionary benefits of HC judges. According to the proposal, an HC Judge elevated from the bar will have his 10 years of practice as advocate added to his service tenure for calculation of pensionary benefits. The main question that arose before the Supreme Court in the case P. Ramakrishnam Raju v. Union of India and others, was whether high court judges who were appointed under Article 217 of the Constitution on retirement are entitled for an addition of 10 years to their service for the purposes of their pension.

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Judicial officers' pension: Unified pension scheme notified, Centre tells Supreme Court
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Judicial officers' pension: Unified pension scheme notified, Centre tells Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Centre on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that it recently notified the Unified Pension Scheme which might address the concerns of judicial officers. “It is the submission of the attorney general as well as the solicitor general that the Unified Pension Scheme may address concerns of all the employees, including the judicial officers,” observed the Bench. The court therefore …

Why did the Supreme Court clear the decks for appointment of ad-hoc judges to High Courts? | Explained
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Why did the Supreme Court clear the decks for appointment of ad-hoc judges to High Courts? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: To address the growing backlog of criminal cases, the Supreme Court on January 30, 2025, allowed High Courts to appoint retired judges on an ad-hoc basis, provided they hear only criminal appeals as part of a Bench led by a sitting judge. In Lok Prahari, the Court identified specific circumstances that could warrant the appointment of …

Keen on finding solution over disparity in high court judges pension: SC
2 months ago

Keen on finding solution over disparity in high court judges pension: SC

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday said it was keen on finding a solution over the issue of disparity in pension to retired high court judges. The top court was hearing arguments on a batch of pleas raising the issue of different pension being payable to retired high court judges. In December 2024, the top court said it was …

Pitiable: SC on pension of retired high court judges
3 months, 1 week ago

Pitiable: SC on pension of retired high court judges

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was "pitiable" that some retired high court judges were getting a pension ranging between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000. "It is pitiable," the bench said while noting that some retired high court judges were getting pensions ranging between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000. The pleas raising the issue concerning the pension …

Pitiable, says Supreme Court on pension of retired High Court Judges
3 months, 1 week ago

Pitiable, says Supreme Court on pension of retired High Court Judges

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was “pitiable” that some retired High Court Judges were getting a pension ranging between ₹10,000 and ₹15,000. “It is pitiable,” the Bench said, while noting that some retired High Court Judges were getting pension ranging between ₹10,000 and ₹15,000. The pleas raising issue concerning pension of retired High Court Judges was listed for …

Shocking: Supreme Court on Rs 15,000 pension for some retired High Court judges
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Shocking: Supreme Court on Rs 15,000 pension for some retired High Court judges

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed "shock" over some retired high court judges getting a meagre pension ranging between Rs 6,000 and Rs 15,000. A bench of Justices BR Gavai, PK Mishra and KV Viswanathan was hearing a petition filed by a retired high court judge who said he was receiving a mere Rs 15,000 pension. "If there are retired …

Supreme Court 'Shocked' That Some Retired HC Judges Get Only Rs 6-15K Monthly Pension, Flags Differential Treatment To Judges Elevated From Service
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court 'Shocked' That Some Retired HC Judges Get Only Rs 6-15K Monthly Pension, Flags Differential Treatment To Judges Elevated From Service

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today expressed shock in a case filed by a retired Allahabad High Court judge raising the issue of pension, when it was informed that some retired High Court judges across the country are getting pension amounts as low as Rs.6000-7000/- per month.A bench comprising Justices BR Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan was dealing with retired …

High Court Judges Can't Be Discriminated Regarding Pension Based On Whether They're Elevated From Service Or Bar : Supreme Court
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4 months, 3 weeks ago

High Court Judges Can't Be Discriminated Regarding Pension Based On Whether They're Elevated From Service Or Bar : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today (November 5) held that High Court Judges elevated from the district judiciary would be entitled to service conditions at par with those judges appointed from the bar and that the Constitution does not differentiate between the High Court Judges on the basis of the source of their recruitment.

High Court Judges' Salaries and Benefits: Supreme Court Dismisses Dispute on Source of Recruitment
4 months, 3 weeks ago

High Court Judges' Salaries and Benefits: Supreme Court Dismisses Dispute on Source of Recruitment

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today (November 5) held that High Court Judges elevated from the district judiciary would be entitled to service conditions at par with those judges appointed from the bar and that the Constitution does not differentiate between the High Court Judges on the basis of the source of their recruitment.

Justice Department says raising judges’ retirement age may benefit non-performers
2 years, 3 months ago

Justice Department says raising judges’ retirement age may benefit non-performers

The Hindu  

Increasing the retirement age of Supreme Court and High Court judges could extend the years of service of non-performing judges and might have a cascading effect with government employees raising similar demands, the Department of Justice told a Parliamentary panel. In July, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju had informed Parliament that there is no proposal to increase the retirement age of …

Centre Amends Rules To Provide CJI & Supreme Court Judges Lifetime Domestic Help, Chauffeur & Other Benefits After Retirement
2 years, 6 months ago

Centre Amends Rules To Provide CJI & Supreme Court Judges Lifetime Domestic Help, Chauffeur & Other Benefits After Retirement

Live Law  

On Friday, the Central Government has notified further amendments to the Supreme Court Judges Rules, 1959, inter alia, deploying a domestic help, a chauffeur and a secretary assistant to serve retired Chief Justices of India during their lifetime. The Judges of the Supreme Court would be entitled to lifelong domestic help and chauffeur after retirement.The rules were earlier. The Judges …

Retirement Age Of Judges- Time Is Right To Take The Right Decision
2 years, 11 months ago

Retirement Age Of Judges- Time Is Right To Take The Right Decision

Live Law  

"…I think 65 years is too early an age for someone to retire…" were the words of the present Chief Justice of India, Justice N.V. Ramana, while responding to query made during online conversation on Comparative Constitutional Law. In March 2021, the Union Government informed the Parliament that there is no proposal to increase the retirement age of the judges …

Nod for Bill on ex-judges’ pension calculation
3 years, 3 months ago

Nod for Bill on ex-judges’ pension calculation

The Hindu  

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a Bill which seeks to clarify the process of counting the age of retired judges to determine when they will get enhanced pension. Replying to the debate on The High Court and Supreme Court Judges Amendment Bill, 2021, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told the House that the measure did not in any way affect …

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Uniform Retirement Age For Supreme Court And High Court Judges
3 years, 11 months ago

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Uniform Retirement Age For Supreme Court And High Court Judges

Live Law  

"It's irrational to have different retirement age for judges of constitutional courts," says a plea filed by BJP leader and Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay before the Supreme Court seeking uniform retirement age for judges of the High Courts as well as the Top Court. Uniformity in retirement age will further enable the High Court Judges to discharge judicial work more independently, …

Post-retirement prospects for constitutional court judges tear the fabric of judicial independence
5 years, 6 months ago

Post-retirement prospects for constitutional court judges tear the fabric of judicial independence

Firstpost  

The government’s appointment of Justice Sunil Gaur as the chairperson of the Prevention of Money Laundering Appellate Tribunal has once again brought back into the spotlight questions of constitutional significance facing the independence and credibility of India’s higher judiciary. One public interest justification put forward in favor of post-retirement jobs is that judges of high courts and the Supreme Court, …

Tribunals CB [Day-1, Session-1] There Is A Strong View Point That Post-Retirement Appointments Is A Scar On Independence Of Judiciary, Says CJI
5 years, 11 months ago

Tribunals CB [Day-1, Session-1] There Is A Strong View Point That Post-Retirement Appointments Is A Scar On Independence Of Judiciary, Says CJI

Live Law  

"There is no dispute that most of these tribunals are virtually non-functioning either for the lack of infrastructure or manpower.there is a very practical solution and the idea is to have as few tribunals as possible. The Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice was hearing on petitions challenging the provisions in Finance Act 2017 relating to various Tribunals Earlier, Senior …

'One Rank One Pension' Norm For HC Judges: SC Seeks Centre's View [Read Order]
6 years, 2 months ago

'One Rank One Pension' Norm For HC Judges: SC Seeks Centre's View [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday called upon the Department of Justice, Central Government to place its views about inequalities in the matter of payment of pension to Service Judges as compared to Bar Judges. Former Judge of Madras High Court, Justice M. Vijayaraghavan had, in 2017, filed a writ petition before the Apex court, seeking a direction to rectify the …

Retired HC Judges Elevated From Bar To Get Addl Pensionary Benefits With Retrospective Effect From 1.4.2004
8 years, 3 months ago

Retired HC Judges Elevated From Bar To Get Addl Pensionary Benefits With Retrospective Effect From 1.4.2004

Live Law  

Two and half years after a Supreme Court ruling to include the benefit of 10-year practice as an advocate for computing judges’ pension, the Law Ministry has announced an increase in pensionary allowance for retired judges elevated from the Bar with retrospective effect from 1 April, 2004.In P Ramakrishnam Raju vs. Union of India, the apex court in March 2014, …

No Proposal to raise the Retirement Age of SC, HC Judges, enhancement of salary under consideration: Centre
9 years, 3 months ago

No Proposal to raise the Retirement Age of SC, HC Judges, enhancement of salary under consideration: Centre

Live Law  

The central government today informed the Rajya Sabha that there is no proposal to increase the retirement age of judges of Supreme Court and High Courts under consideration of the government. Replying to a question on raising salaries and allowances of judges, Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said, "It will take place once the salary of Secretaries to Government is …

No Proposal to raise the Retirement Age of SC, HC Judges, enhancement of salary under consideration: Centre
9 years, 3 months ago

No Proposal to raise the Retirement Age of SC, HC Judges, enhancement of salary under consideration: Centre

Live Law  

The central government today informed the Rajya Sabha that there is no proposal to increase the retirement age of judges of Supreme Court and High Courts under consideration of the government. Replying to a question on raising salaries and allowances of judges, Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said, "It will take place once the salary of Secretaries to Government is …

Cabinet approves Amendment to remove anomalies in pensionary benefits of HC judges
9 years, 7 months ago

Cabinet approves Amendment to remove anomalies in pensionary benefits of HC judges

Live Law  

The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to amend the High Court Judges Act removing anomalies in pensionary benefits of HC judges.According to the proposal, an HC Judge elevated from the bar will have his 10 years of practice as advocate added to his service tenure for calculation of pensionary benefits.Until now, a Judge’s pension was calculated on the number …

Equal Pension for Bar Judges and Service Judges; Provision for fixing higher pension to the Service Judges is Unconstitutional; SC [Read Judgment]
10 years, 11 months ago

Equal Pension for Bar Judges and Service Judges; Provision for fixing higher pension to the Service Judges is Unconstitutional; SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Supreme Court on Monday held that fixation of higher pension to the Judges drawn from the Subordinate Judiciary who have served for shorter period in contradistinction to Judges drawn from the Bar who have served for longer period with less pension is highly discriminatory and breach of Article 14 of the ConstitutionA three Judge Bench of apex court comprising of …

Petition to increase retirement age of judges turned down by the Supreme Court
11 years, 2 months ago

Petition to increase retirement age of judges turned down by the Supreme Court

Live Law  

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam declined to entertain a PIL filed by an advocate R K Kapoor pleading that the superannuation age of judges of trial courts be increased from 60 to 62 years and those in the high courts from 62 to 65 years. The contention of the petitioner that the retirement age of …

Petition to increase retirement age of judges turned down by the Supreme Court
11 years, 2 months ago

Petition to increase retirement age of judges turned down by the Supreme Court

Live Law  

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam declined to entertain a PIL filed by an advocate R K Kapoor pleading that the superannuation age of judges of trial courts be increased from 60 to 62 years and those in the high courts from 62 to 65 years. The contention of the petitioner that the retirement age of …

Differential treatment in fixing pension unfair, rules SC
12 years, 1 month ago

Differential treatment in fixing pension unfair, rules SC

The Hindu  

In fixing pension, no differential treatment can be made among government employees who retired in different periods while taking into consideration their ‘dearness pay’, the Supreme Court has held. Khehar quashed an August 9, 1989 Tamil Nadu Government Order to the extent that it extended to employees who retired on or after June 1, 1988 a lower component of ‘dearness …

Experts call for amendments to prevent judges taking up jobs after retirement
12 years, 5 months ago

Experts call for amendments to prevent judges taking up jobs after retirement

The Hindu  

The Constitution and various laws must be amended to prevent judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts from taking up post- retirement jobs, say legal experts. The only provision which places restriction on the post-retirement occupation of the judges of the High Courts is Article 220 which states: ‘No person who, after the commencement of this Constitution, has …

Opposition demands withdrawal of judges bill
13 years, 2 months ago

Opposition demands withdrawal of judges bill

The Hindu  

Many Opposition parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Wednesday slammed the government in the Lok Sabha for bringing “a highly ineffective and an opaque” Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010, that provides for taking up investigations against judges. The Bill sought to lay down judicial standards and provide for accountability of judges, and establish a credible and expedient mechanism …

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