43.6% of HC judges have been appointed from the subordinate judiciary and the remaining 56.4% were appointed directly from the Bar.

DESK BRIEF: For 2 brief years, the collegium used to publish reasons for recommending appointments and transfers of judges.

While the number of woman judges at the SC has increased, the time they will spend on the bench is low.

With no fixed rules about it, and the recent appointment of nine new judges, regional representation in the Supreme Court has changed.

Besides these informal conventions, religious diversity has not been a major criteria for appointments to the Supreme Court.

After the appointment of the first Dalit judge in 1980, this is the first time that two Dalit judges are serving simultaneously.

Seniority is an important consideration for recommendations to the Supreme Court, and there is now an all-India list indicating the same.

Integrity appears the second highest number of times as a criterion mentioned in collegium resolutions, but only twice for specific judges.

The Supreme Court collegium resolutions almost always take regional diversity into account, though this is only an unwritten rule.

What are the criteria for appointing SC judges? Recent collegium resolutions have been taking a need for 'due representation' into account.