BREAKING: THREE YEAR PRACTICE RESTORED FOR CIVIL JUDGE POST, APPLICABLE ONLY FROM NEXT RECRUITMENT: SUPREME COURT https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-judicial-service-minimum-practice-three-year-criteria-civil-judge-292719
Jaswinder Singh Sandhu
Chandigarh, 20 May : The Supreme Court will pronounce judgment today on the question whether the minimum practice requirement should be reinstated as an eligibility condition for applying to entry-level posts in judicial service. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, Justice AG Masih and Justice K Vinod Chandran will pronounce the verdict in the All India Judges Association case. READ THE LIVE UPDATES HERE
n the judgment, the Court said that allowing fresh law graduates to enter judicial service without even a single day of practice has led to problems. “For the last 20 years, during which the recruitment of fresh law graduates have been appointed as judicial officers without a single day of practice at the bar has not been a successful experience. Such fresh law graduates have led to many problems.. The judges, from the very day when they assume office, deal with the issues of life, liberty, property, and reputation of litigants. Neither knowledge based on law books nor pre-service training could be an adequate substitute to the first hand experience of the working of the court system and administration of justice. This is possible when the candidate is exposed to the working of the court…and observing how lawyers and judges function in the court. The candidates should be equipped to understand the intracies of a judge and therefore, we are in agreement with most of the high courts that the requirement of the introduction of certain number of years of practice is necessary,” 19 May 2025 10:39 PM
