Panaji: State govt on Thursday notified the Goa judicial service (amendment) rules, 2025, and the Goa judicial service (seniority) (amendment) rules, 2025, for recruitment, promotion, and drawing up a seniority list of district judges.The rules said that the suitability for regular promotion of civil judge junior division to the post of civil judge senior division on the basis of the principle of merit-cum-seniority shall be considered on the basis of evaluation of their judgments carrying 50 marks, evaluation of annual confidential reports carrying 20 marks, vigilance reports carrying 10 marks, disposal remarks carrying 10 marks, and special reports of the heads of departments under whom the judicial officer has worked during the three years preceding the year of the selection process, carrying 10 marks.The rules said that the recruiting authority shall draw up a list of judicial officers from the zone of consideration out of those civil judges junior division who have obtained at least 60% marks in the evaluation referred to in the preceding clause, provided the selection committee does not entertain any doubt about the integrity of the judicial officer concerned.“If the number of judicial officers who have obtained at least 60% marks is more than the number of vacancies declared, they shall be picked up in the order of their seniority in the cadre of civil judge junior division and their names in the select list shall be arranged in accordance with their seniority in the cadre of civil judge junior division,” state the rules.
