Informal Constitution
Subtitle: Unwritten Criteria in Selecting Judges for the Supreme Court of India
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780198098560
Subjects: India, supreme court; Judges
Description: An empirical study of judicial appointments made to the Supreme Court of India since Independence. The historical debates surrounding the establishment of the Federal Court during the British Raj, debates in the Constituent Assembly of India and its sub-committees specific to the establishment of the Supreme Court, the three 'Judges Cases' and the political developments which led to the present 'collegium system' of appointing judges to the Supreme Court of India have all been discussed and analysed.