3 Appointment, Service, Privileges and Removal of the Chief Justice and SC Judges

• Appointment: CJ — President on CC recommendation (129(2)); justices — President on JC recommendation; the acting arrangements (129(6)); • Service and privileges: the pension floor (≥ 5 years' service — 130(1)); remuneration by law, protected against disadvantage (130(4)); the impeachment/moral-degradation pension bar (130(3)); the court's administration (the CJ's ultimate responsibility for the administration of justice — Article 136); • Removal (Article 101(2)) — the full machinery: grounds (serious violation of Constitution or law; incompetence; misbehavior; failure in good faith; physical/mental incapacity); initiation by ¼ of the HoR; the 11-member impeachment recommendation committee (101(3)-(4)); suspension pending process (101(6)); the adequate-defence guarantee (101(7)); resolution by ⅔ of the joint session; consequences — no gratuity/pension, ineligibility for further public position (101(9)), no bar to criminal prosecution (101(8)); • The constitutional design note: removal of the highest judges placed with the legislature (not the executive, not the JC) — the Kesavananda-era lesson institutionalized.