National Judicial Appointments Commission

Second senior-most judge of Supreme Court is set to retire on 22 June

Court hears suggestions from various stakeholders including the bar associations of various states, women's bar associations and individual lawyers, among others

The extent of disclosure and effective working of the model is likely to be heard and decided by the five-judge bench starting 3 November

Any mechanism for judicial selections must ultimately command widespread trust and acceptance

It is time for different stakeholders to strike a compromise

The five-judge bench, however, says that it would seek the assistance of lawyers to improve the collegium system; this will be heard on 3 November

The legal fraternity continues to be sharply divided over the matter of how to select the nation's senior judges

Attorney general says only question for the SC is whether NJAC will topple the structure of judiciary's independence

The court asks the government whether the NJAC can function in the absence of any one of its six member

Mukul Rohatgi, counsel for the Union govt, addressed the question of 'eminent persons', who are proposed to be members of NJAC