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Justice K. Vinod Chandran, J., held that 3 years’ practice at the Bar is essential before entry into the judicial service, as practical courtroom experience cannot be adequately substituted by a structured training programme, and therefore found no ground to review the earlier judgment.
Supreme Court modified the 3-year Bar practice requirement for recruitment as Civil Judge (Junior Division), introducing a transitional regime for fresh law graduates and prescribing 1 year of actual practice, followed by structured judicial training and Law Clerkship, for subsequent recruitments.
Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal updates Parliament on Fast Track Courts: 879 functional across 22 States/UTs, handling pending cases from 2015—2020.
In the present case, the petitioner had appeared in Civil Judge examination of 2016. In 2019, he had sought modification of marks obtained in the mains examination and eventually to be called for viva-voce.
“The Government must conduct itself as a model employer and in a constitutionally ordained Welfare State a citizen could not be told that the reasons for a decision were stacked in the Godown of the Government since ours was not the East India Company of bygone era”.