The majority had declared that in the matter of appointments to the highcourts and the Supreme Court the view of the ChiefJustice of India would have primacy vis a vis the Union Government.
But it was not called for just as none of the previous chiefjustices of India or of highcourts were called upon to inform the court of their actual verifiable experience in the matter of appointments and transfers.
In answering this the apex court expanded the collegium to ChiefJustice plus four senior most judges without explaining the legal principle on which this was based.
The ChiefJustice'sCourt is the largest of the Courts located in the Centre of the Central Wing.
As the work of the Court increased and arrears of cases began to cumulate, Parliament increased the number of Judges from 8 in 1950 to 11 in 1956, 14 in 1960, 18 in 1978 and 26 in 1986.
Provisions exist for the appointment of a Judge of a HighCourt as an Ad-hoc Judge of the Supreme Court and for retired Judges of the Supreme Court or HighCourts to sit and act as Judges of that Court.
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