Ex-CJI, law panel also opposed post-retirement jobs

While Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley may have been the first frontline politician to raise the issue of a “cooling-off” period for retired judges, many who have been a part of the higher judiciary have voiced this concern in the past. Former union law minister Jaitley said on Sunday that the “clamour for post-retirement jobs among judges is affecting the impartiality of the judiciary” and favoured a two-year “cooling-off” period before retired judges are appointed to tribunals and commissions.

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