SUPREME COURT ADVOCATES-ON-RECORD ASSOCIATION AND ANOTHER versus UNION OF INDIA

Citation: [2015] 14 S.C.R. 975 · Decided: 16-12-2015 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: J.S. KHEHAR, JASTI CHELAMESWAR, MADAN B. LOKUR, KURIAN JOSEPH, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL · Disposal: Disposed off
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r2015J 14 s.c.R. 975 
SUPREME COURT ADVOCATES-ON-RECORD 
A 
ASSOCIATION AND ANOTHER 
v. 
UNION OF INDIA 
(Writ Petition (Civil) No. 13 of2015) 
B 
DECEMBER 16, 2015 
[JAGDISH SINGH KHEHAR, J. CHELAMESWAR, 
MADAN B. LOKUR, KURIAN JOSEPH AND ADARSH 
KUMAR GOEL, JJ.] 
C 
Judiciary - Higher judiciary - Appointment of judges 
to the higher judiciary - Improvement in the working of the 
coflegium system - Issuance of guidelines to make the 
co/legium system of judges more transparent and 
.accountable - Government of India to finalize the existing D 
Memorandum of Procedure. (MOP) by supplementing it in 
consultation with the Chief Justice of India-' The Chief Justice 
of India will take a decision based on the unanimous view of 
the coflegium comprising the four senior most puisne Judges 
of the Supreme Court - They would take into consideration 
E 
suggestions on the issues of eligibility criteria, transparency 
in the appointment process, Secretariat, complaints and 
· other matters in the MOP. 
Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association 
v. Union of India 1993 (2) Suppl. SCR 659: (1993) 
4 SCC 441; Special Reference No. 1 of 1998 
1998 (2) Suppl. scR 400: (1998) 7 sec 739 -
referred to. 
Case Law Reference 
1993 (2) Suppl. SCR 659 referred to. 
1998 (2) Suppl. SCR 400 referred to. 
975 
Para 6. 
Para 7. 
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976 
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
(2015] 14S.C.R. 
A 
CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: Writ Petition (Civil) No. 
13of2015. 
Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. 
WITH 
B 
W. P. (C) Nos. 23, 70, 83, 108, 124, 14, 18, 24, 209, 
309, 310, 323 and 341 of 2015 and T. P. (C) Nos. 391 and 
971 of2015. 
Mukul Rohatgi, AG, Ranjit Kumar, SG, Ms. Pinky Anand, 
ASG, Shiv Mangal Sharma, C. D. Singh, Anil Grover, 
C Suryanarayana Singh, Gaurav Bhatia, Ajay Bansal, AA Gs, F ali 
S. Nariman, Anil B. Divan, R. K. P. Shankardas, K. N. Bhat, 
Sunil Gupta, Ajit Kumar Sinha, Arvind P. Datar, 
K. K. Venugopal, Subramonium Prasad, T. R.Andhyarujina, 
D Vijay Hansaria, Siddharth Luthra, Manan Kumar Mishra, 
P. P. Rao, Ram Jethmalani, Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Gopal 
Subramanium, Jaideep Gupta, Ms. Mahalakshmi Pavani, 
S. G. Hasnain, Sr. Advs., Subhash C. Sharma, Mrs. Astha 
Deep, S. K.Anand, Surya Kant, Dinesh Kumar Garg, Santosh 
Paul, Joseph Aristotle S., Arvind Gupta, Ms. Priya Aristotle, 
E Ms. Savita Singh, M. B. Elakkumanan, Ms. Swati Singh, 
Raghav Shekhar, Prashant Bhushan, Prashant Kumar, 
Ms. Anindita Pujari, Syed Rehan, Ranvir Singh, Jitendra Kr. 
Mohapatra, A. C. Philip, Anjan Sinha, Rabin Majumder, 
V. N. Subramanian, Subhasish Bhowmick, Ms. Prachi Bajpai, 
F Sriram Parakkat, Vishnu Shankar Jain, Ankur S. Kulkarni, Nikhil 
Rohatgi, Sameer Rohatgi, D. L. Chidananda, R. K. Verma, 
Mrs. Madhvi Div;-in, Thangathurai, Ms. S. Sharma, Arghya 
Sengupta,Abhinav Mukherji, Ms. Binu Tamta, Mrs. Diksha Rai, 
Ajay Sharma, Ms. Devanshi P., Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Samit 
G Khosla, Ms. Devanshi Singh, Gurmehar Singh S., Prabal 
Bagchi, Karan Seth, Rishabh Jain, Ms. Kritika Sachdeva, 
Ms. Snidha Mehra, Ms. Somya Thakur, B. V. Balaram Das, 
Devashish Bharuka, Ms. Abhinandini Sharma, Avanish Rathi, 
(For Ms. Ruchi Kohli), Tapesh Kr. Singh, Mohd. Waquas, 
H 
SUPREME COURT ADVOCATES-ON-RECORD 
977 
ASSOCIATION v. UNION OF INDIA 
Shashamk Singh, Sylona Mohapatra, A. P. Mayee, Gautam A 
Narayan, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Linthoingambi Thongam, 
Z. H. Isaac Haiding, Ashok Kumar Singh, Sanjay Kr. Visen, 
· Mishra Saurabh, Ms. Pragati Nekhra, V. G. Pragasam, Prabu 
Ramasubramanian, Ahmad Abdi, Dr. Indra Pratap Singh, 
Ashutosh Dubey, Dr. B. K. Jauhari, Shashank Bajpai, B 
Ms. Pumima Jauhari, Prakash Kumar Singh, Utkarsh Jaiswal, 
Gaurav Srivastava, Abhisht Kumar, Sarai Chaturvedi, Abhishek 
Kumar Singh, K. V. Jagdishvaran, Mrs. G. Indira, Ms. Vinakshi 
Kadan, (For Ms. Hemantika Wahi), Jagjit Singh Chhabra, 
Kuldip Singh, Gaurav Yadava, M. Yogesh Kanna, Ritu Raj C 
Biswas, Gopal Singh, Ms. Varsha Poddar, Nishant 
Katneshwarkar, Arpit Rai, Ms. Rachna Srivastava, 
Ms. D. Bharthi Reddy._Aviral Saxena, Ms. Shivani Khandekar, 
Ms.Aruna Mathur, Avneesh Arputham, Ms. AnuradhaArputham, 
Yusuf, Shobhit Nanda, Mrs. K. Enatoli Serna, Edward Belho, D 
· Amit Kumar Singh, Shivam Singh, Dattaprasad Lawande, 
Puma Bhandari, S. S. Rebello, Aurobindo Gomes Pereira, 
K. C. Kaushik, Ms. Shilpi Staya Priya Satyam, 
Ms. Bhuvneshwari Pathak, J. D. Nankani, Ms.Anjana Singh, 
Ms. Sneha Kalita, Ms. Shobha, Avnish Pandey, Abhinav E 
Hansaria, Ms. Priyanka S. Mathur, Ms. Sunita Rao,
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