Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has suspended hiring and transferring magistrates.
JSC said the decision was made to support the efforts of the government of revise the Judicial Service Commission Act and the requirements of judges. The administration has submitted several amendments to the Judicial Service Commission Act to the parliament, including changing the minimum age required to be a member of JSC from 25 to 40, prohibiting lawyers who are members of JSC from practising law and ways to remove the president and the vice president of JSC, which have not been included in the act before. In this regard, the president and the vice president of JSC can be removed if a no confidence motion was submitted by 4 members and passed by the majority of the commission members who participated in the vote, according to the amendment.
Further, JSC must not also oversee or conclude a case, while a no confidence vote is pending against the president and the vice president of the commission. The outcome of a no confidence vote cannot also be appealed at any court of law.