The CJI mentioned at present we stay in an age the place individuals are brief on their persistence and tolerance as a result of they aren’t prepared to simply accept views that are totally different from their very own.

Justice Chandrachud was talking on the American Bar Association India Conference 2023 right here on the theme “Law in the age of Globalisation: Convergence of India and the West”.

The CJI spoke a few vary of points, together with expertise and its use by the judiciary, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic, points confronting the judicial occupation and on having extra girls judges.

“Truth has become the victim in an age of false news. With the spread of social media, something which is said as a seed germinates into virtually a whole theory which can never be tested on the anvil of rational science,” he mentioned.
Justice Chandrachud mentioned in some ways, the Indian Constitution is a main instance of globalisation even earlier than we ventured into the age of globalisation.

He mentioned when the Constitution was drafted, its makers had probably no concept of the strains alongside 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 every little thing that we do, and believe me, as judges we are no exception to this, for everything that you do, you face the threat of being trolled by someone who does not share your point of view,” the CJI mentioned.

He mentioned simply as humanity has expanded with the worldwide creation of journey and expertise, humanity additionally has retreated inside by not prepared to simply accept something that individuals, as people, consider 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 expertise.

Speaking in regards to the time when COVID-19 had unfold internationally, together with India, the CJI mentioned the Indian judiciary began video-conferencing in a really light approach after which expanded it throughout all courts.

“What video-conferencing has done as a consequence of pandemic is that it has led to a decentralisation of justice. And I think this decentralisation of justice is an important paradigm in promoting greater access to justice,” he mentioned.

He mentioned the Supreme Court of India is just not the apex courtroom of Tilak Marg at New Delhi however it represents the aspirations of residents within the smallest villages within the nation.

“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, apart from technology, there are vital issues which confront the profession today. Chief among them is the reform of the legal profession itself. In so many ways, our profession is still patriarchal, our profession is feudal, our profession is built upon kinships and relationships of community,” he mentioned.

Justice Chandrachud mentioned globalisation has led to its personal discontent and there are a selection of causes for this, for the meltdown which has been skilled 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 within the nation.

He mentioned the state of our establishment at present when it comes to inclusion and variety displays the state of the occupation twenty years in the past.

“Because the judges who come to the high courts today, say in 2023, or judges who come to the Supreme Court in 2023 reflect the state of the bar in the beginning of the millennium,” he mentioned.

Justice Chandrachud mentioned until there was a level-playing subject for ladies to enter and thrive within the authorized occupation between 2000 and 2023, there isn’t a magic wand by which you should have apex courtroom judges drawn from amongst girls 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 latest recruitment within the district judiciary in India signifies that in lots of states, greater than 50 per cent are girls.

He mentioned the reason for that’s the unfold of training in India.

“As education spread in India, women education has gone up and there is today a perception on the part of middle class, the growing middle class in India, that the key to prosperity of an average Indian family is to educate their daughters,” he mentioned.

The CJI additionally gave particulars of how the Supreme Court has adopted expertise, together with live-streaming of proceedings of the structure benches and translation of judgements in regional languages.