National Judicial Appointments Commission case

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/National_Judicial_Appointments_Commission_case
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:NJAC_case
Fourth Judges Case
gptkbp:area gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:basicStructureDoctrine Reaffirmed
gptkbp:challenge Constitution (Ninety-ninth Amendment) Act, 2014
National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014
gptkbp:citation (2016) 5 SCC 1
gptkbp:country gptkb:India
gptkbp:date 2015-10-16
gptkbp:decidedBy gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_India
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label National Judicial Appointments Commission case
gptkbp:impact Restored collegium system for appointment of judges
gptkbp:judge Justice J. S. Khehar
gptkbp:officialName Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association vs Union of India
gptkbp:otherJudges gptkb:Justice_Kurian_Joseph
gptkb:Justice_Madan_B._Lokur
Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel
Justice R. Banumathi
gptkbp:petitioner gptkb:Supreme_Court_Advocates-on-Record_Association
gptkbp:powers 5
gptkbp:reasoning Violated the basic structure of the Constitution
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Separation_of_powers
Independence of judiciary
Judicial appointments in India
gptkbp:response gptkb:Union_of_India
gptkbp:subject Constitutionality of the National Judicial Appointments Commission
gptkbp:verdict NJAC and 99th Constitutional Amendment declared unconstitutional
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Indian_Supreme_Court
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6