CJI Gavai urges members of tribunals to reflect and be gutsy

Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai on Saturday said some of the nonjudicial members of the tribunals, who are usually ex-bureaucrats, are averse to passing any orders against the government and urged them to reflect.

- PTI

Addressing the 10th All India Conference of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) 2025 in New Delhi, in the presence of Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh, the CJI highlighted several issues plaguing tribunals and the country’s justice delivery system. He said administrative tribunals occupy a unique space between the executive and the judiciary, with members coming from both administrative services and the judiciary. While this diversity brings together judicial acumen and administrative experience, it is imperative that members are consistently trained and held to uniform standards of eligibility.

Judicial members would benefit from exposure to public administration, while administrative members require training in legal reasoning, he added.