{"id":9702,"date":"2022-10-08T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:25:49","slug":"the-memorandum-of-procedure-mop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-memorandum-of-procedure-mop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Memorandum of Procedure (MoP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CJI Lalit retires on November 8. The second seniormost judge on the Bench is Justice D Y Chandrachud. Upon recommendation by CJI Lalit and appointment by the President, Justice Chandrachud will be CJI for a little more than two years until November 10, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Memorandum of Procedure (MoP)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The MoP is the playbook agreed upon by the government and the judiciary on the\u00a0<strong>appointment of judges<\/strong>. It is a crucial document because the Collegium system of appointing judges is a judicial innovation that is\u00a0<strong>not mandated through legislation or text of the Constitution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>MoP has evolved as the standard based on three decisions of the Supreme Court,\u00a0<\/strong>known as the\u00a0<strong>First Judges Case (1981), Second Judges Case (1993) and the Third Judges Case (1998).<\/strong>\u00a0These three judgments form the basis of a peer selection process for the appointment of judges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The MoP was first drawn up in 1999<\/strong>. It was re-negotiated in 2016 following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike down National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)<\/li>\n<li>MoP says that the \u201c<u>Union Minister of Law, Justice\u2026would, at the appropriate time, seek the recommendation of the outgoing Chief Justice of India for the appointment of the next Chief Justice of India\u201d.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Although the MoP mentions an \u201c<strong>appropriate time\u201d,<\/strong>\u00a0the process is by\u00a0<strong>convention begun a month before the date of retirement\u00a0<\/strong>of the incumbent CJI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/how-is-indias-top-judge-chosen-8195870\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoP is the list of rules and procedures for appointment of judges to Supreme Court and the high courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}