Mumbai, June 8 : In order to fill up the vacancies, the Bombay High Court has sent a list of 22 advocates to the Supreme Court Collegium recommending that they be elevated as the Judges of the HC.
The Bombay High Court has a sanctioned strength of 94 judges while the number of vacancies as on June 1, 2020, is 25. The list of 22 lawyers sent by the High Court are practicing advocates of the High Court and fulfil the criteria under Article 217 of the Constitution which provides that a person needs to have at least ten years experience as an advocate of a High Court or two or more such courts in succession. The criteria also provides that such a person should have held a judicial office in the territory of India for at least ten years.
This list of 22 advocates would now be considered by the SC Collegium which has three senior most Judges of the Supreme Court. The Collegium would consider the candidates list along with intelligence report about them.
After the Collegium approves the names, the list would be sent to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice which in turn would send the names to the President of India.
The President would under his seal and signature issue the warrant of appointment. Then the names would be notified in the official Gazette by the Government after which the proposed candidates would take oath of office of the Judge of the High Court.
