{"id":10316,"date":"2025-10-16T05:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:47:21","slug":"from-collegium-to-commission-learning-from-the-uk-and-us-models-of-judicial-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/from-collegium-to-commission-learning-from-the-uk-and-us-models-of-judicial-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"From Collegium to Commission: Learning from the UK and US Models of Judicial Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

The practice of policymaking involves answering big questions. One such question is how the process of selection and appointment of judges to our constitutional courts is to be done. Our framers didn\u2019t leave this question open at the time of adoption of the Constitution. However, as our jurisprudence grew around the doctrine of independence of the judiciary and our appointment system got politicised, the Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court under a series of cases (namely, First Judges Case (1982)<\/strong>, Second Judges Case (1993)<\/strong>, Third Judges Case (1998)<\/strong>) established the Collegium System<\/strong>.<\/p>

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