LAHORE: Research indicates that while the appointment of judges for higher courts is done in a variety of ways across the globe, the final signing or authorizing authority in this regard are parliaments, presidents, prime ministers, or monarchs or kings.
Argentina, Switzerland, Australia, India (President appoints arbiters with consent from Chief Justice), France, Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Denmark (judges appointed by the monarch upon recommendation of the Minister of Justice, with advice from the Judicial Appointments Council, a 6-member independent body of judges and lawyers), Albania, Israel, Germany are among the nations where national parliaments, monarchs, presidents, and heads of government have a decisive role in regard to judicial appointments.
