Justice Chandrachud was responding to a question on the impact of social media on the judiciary at an event organised by the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession last month.
In response to a question raised by MP KR Suresh Reddy in the present monsoon session, the Ministry of Law and Justice has said that live streaming of court proceedings has been initiated in seven.
CJI cited the recent clips of the Patna HC judge asking an IAS officer why he is not appropriately dressed or the Gujarat HC judge asking a lawyer why she is not prepared with her case are going around.
The digital wave has taken the world by storm; no field hasn’t changed itself under the influence of Information Technology. With banks adopting it in the mid-1990s and most banking applications now being online and app-based, India achieved the world’s highest e-transaction volume. The Indian Judicial System also saw the benefits, and Phase I of the e-Courts was implemented in 2007 after being conceptualized in 2005 based on the National Policy and Action Plan for Implementation of Information and Communication […]