The Supreme Court has given its approval to revised guidelines for engaging law clerk-cum-research associates on short-term contractual assignments in the Apex Court.
As for the engagement concerned, these law clerks will be engaged on a short-term contractual assignment which shall begin after the Court reopen post summer vacation and would conclude by the end of the following year’s summer vacation.
It is, however, important to note that the term can be extended for the next year on the satisfaction and approval of the Judge with whom the law clerk is attached or the senior-most Judge of the Committee of Judges on Law Clerks.
Remuneration for the law clerk will be ₹80,000 per month for the assignment term, and in case of an extension after twelve months of the initial assignment, the remuneration would be ₹90,000.
As per the information the Judges of the Court will be entitled to engage four law clerks, two of them will mandatorily be through the selection process of the Registry. They will also be free to engage all four through the procedure. Moreover, subject to their workload, they can engage five law clerks.
It is important to note that period of engagement of the law clerk will be counted for the purpose of eligibility requirement for the Supreme Court’s Advocates-on-Record (AoR) examination.
The clerk who are been selected will be trained by the Centre for Research and Planning or the Training Cell of the Supreme Court’s Registry on the preparation of briefs, case notes, research notes.