Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Friday mentioned reality has develop into a “sufferer” in the age of false news and with the spread of social media, something which is said as a seed germinates into virtually a whole theory that can never be tested on the anvil of rational science.
The CJI said today we live in an age where people are short on their patience and tolerance because they are not willing to accept perspectives which are different from their own.
Justice Chandrachud was speaking at the American Bar Association India Conference 2023 here on the theme “Law in the age of Globalisation: Convergence of India and the West”.
The CJI spoke a couple of vary of points, together with know-how and its use by the judiciary, particularly in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, points confronting the judicial career and on having extra girls judges.
“Truth has develop into the sufferer in an age of false information. With the unfold of social media, one thing which is alleged as a seed germinates into nearly an entire principle which may by no means be examined on the anvil of rational science,” he mentioned.
Justice Chandrachud said in many ways, the Indian Constitution is a prime example of globalisation even before we ventured into the age of globalisation.
He said when the Constitution was drafted, its makers had possibly no idea of the lines along which humanity would evolve.
“We did not possess notions of privacy, there was no internet. We did not live in a world which was controlled by algorithms. We certainly did not have a social media,” he mentioned.
“For each little factor that we do, and imagine me, as judges we are not any exception to this, for every thing that you simply do, you face the risk of being trolled by somebody who doesn’t share your level of view,” the CJI said.
He said just as humanity has expanded with the global advent of travel and technology, humanity also has retreated within by not willing to accept anything that people, as individuals, believe in.
“And I believe that is the challenge of our age. Some of this is perhaps the product of technology itself,” he mentioned, whereas additionally dwelling on the positives of know-how.
Speaking concerning the time when COVID-19 had unfold the world over, together with India, the CJI mentioned the Indian judiciary began video-conferencing in a really mild manner after which expanded it throughout all courts.
“What video-conferencing has performed as a consequence of pandemic is that it has led to a decentralisation of justice. And I believe this decentralisation of justice is a vital paradigm in selling better entry to justice,” he said.
He said the Supreme Court of India is not the apex court of Tilak Marg at New Delhi but it represents the aspirations of citizens in the smallest villages in the country.
“And what better way to reach out to our citizens than to use technology as a part of our mission to take justice to the doorsteps of citizens,” he mentioned.
“But, aside from know-how, there are important points which confront the career at the moment. Chief amongst them is the reform of the authorized career itself. In so some ways, our career continues to be patriarchal, our career is feudal, our career is constructed upon kinships and relationships of neighborhood,” he said.
Justice Chandrachud said globalisation has led to its own discontent and there are a number of reasons for this, for the meltdown which has been experienced the world over.
“One, I think the first of the origins of this lay in the terror attacks which took place in 2001. India was shaken up sporadically by these terror attacks… But 2001 was a watershed moment which brought to the global society the stark realities which India had already confronted for years and years before that,” he mentioned.
The CJI mentioned he’s usually requested about why we can’t have extra girls judges in the nation.
He mentioned the state of our establishment at the moment in phrases of inclusion and variety displays the state of the career 20 years in the past.
“Because the judges who come to the excessive courts at the moment, say in 2023, or judges who come to the Supreme Court in 2023 mirror the state of the bar in the start of the millennium,” he said.
Justice Chandrachud said unless there was a level-playing field for women to enter and thrive in the legal profession between 2000 and 2023, there is no magic wand by which you will have apex court judges drawn from among women in 2023.
“So we have to create a framework, a groundwork for a more diverse and inclusive profession today if we truly have to create a future where our profession will be more inclusive and diverse,” he mentioned.
The CJI mentioned the statistics on current recruitment in the district judiciary in India signifies that in many states, greater than 50 per cent are girls.
He mentioned the trigger of that’s the unfold of training in India.
“As training unfold in India, girls training has gone up and there’s at the moment a notion on the half of center class, the rising center class in India, that the important thing to prosperity of a median Indian household is to coach their daughters,” he said.
The CJI also gave details of how the Supreme Court has adopted technology, including live-streaming of proceedings of the constitution benches and translation of judgements in regional languages.
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