With a number of excessive courts having began livestreaming proceedings, the CJI stated this has a flip aspect, too. “We judges need to be trained ourselves, because we are now working in the age of social media,” he stated. “Every word we say in the court is up in the public realm.”

CJI Chandrachud, who was talking on the National Conference on Digitization, Paperless Courts and e-Initiatives on the Odisha Judicial Academy in Cuttack, stated: “Every word which we judges say in court is up in the public realm in the age of social media. This places new demands on us as judges.”

He hailed Orissa HC’s efforts to arrange digital courts in 20 of the state’s 30 districts, the place attorneys can deal with the HC from their districts. Setting up digital courts throughout districts has enabled Orissa HC to be “truly the representative of the entire state” and guarantee that there’s entry to justice for residents throughout the state who need entry to the excessive courtroom, he stated.

The CJI stated: “The Supreme Court of India is not the Supreme Court of Tilak Marg but it’s the Supreme Court for India… of India… by India. Likewise, each high court is not really a high court for the metropolitan capital of the state.”

CJI Chandrachud stated the imaginative and prescient of the e-court venture is to supply an inexpensive, accessible, cost-effective, environmentally sustainable, clear and accountable justice supply system. He stated every of those phrases “signifies the core of our mission of reaching out to the citizens, of replacing what was the earlier colonial model of administration of justice, under which citizens had to reach out to the court. We seek to now replace it with a model…to reach out to the citizens.”

On cybersecurity, the CJI stated he has constituted a committee to make sure knowledge safety and knowledge privateness. He stated they’re within the technique of evolving a nationwide mannequin for knowledge safety and privateness which might be a serious step.