The Madras High Court’s Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasantha Kumar J. will be sworn in as the new Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court..Justice Vasantha Kumar enrolled as an advocate in 1980. He was the Senior Standing Counsel for the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission and also Standing Counsel for the Central Government. He joined the Bench as an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court in 2005 and was subsequently appointed as a Permanent Judge in 2007..The elevation may very well be one of the last done under the current collegium system of appointment..Once the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is passed in Parliament, it is the NJAC that will be responsible for the appointment and elevation of judges of both the Supreme Court as well as the High Courts of the country..Image taken from here.
The Madras High Court’s Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasantha Kumar J. will be sworn in as the new Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court..Justice Vasantha Kumar enrolled as an advocate in 1980. He was the Senior Standing Counsel for the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission and also Standing Counsel for the Central Government. He joined the Bench as an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court in 2005 and was subsequently appointed as a Permanent Judge in 2007..The elevation may very well be one of the last done under the current collegium system of appointment..Once the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is passed in Parliament, it is the NJAC that will be responsible for the appointment and elevation of judges of both the Supreme Court as well as the High Courts of the country..Image taken from here.
