12 Pendency is a serious problem plaguing our judicial system. Indian judiciary needs to adopt new tools and technology that will speed up the process and mitigate delays. Technology, like artificial intelligence (AI), can help the judiciary in a big way and with this Indian courts would be able to dispose of almost 90% of the pending cases in just 18 months,” former Chief Justice of India MN Venkatachaliah said on Saturday. He was delivering the 3rd Annual RTI Lecture organised by Moneylife Foundation’s RTI Centre online.
He says, “The AI scanner can read some four-lakh pages in about three to four minutes. But the language platform must be compatible with the material available in courts. Only then the advantage of AI solutions will accrue. AI has some limits but it can be done.”
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Appointment of Judges Is Key to Whether Judiciary Delivers as the Arbiter between Rights of Citizens and Executive
Indira Jaising
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Before I make my comments on the topic for the 3rd Annual RTI Lecture organised by Moneylife Foundation’s RTI Centre, I would like to make a few relevant comments about the work of former Chief Justice MN Venkatachaliah, who has delivered your keynote address today.
Whether the judiciary delivers or not depends on the people who get appointed as judges. Who makes these appointments? It was during the period of his tenure as former CJI that the Supreme Court made a tectonic shift, from judges being appointed primarily by the President of India with the aid and advice of council of ministers, to judges being appointed by the judiciary, in consultation with the prime minister no doubt.
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From the Archives (December 16, 1970): President’s order on princes illegal
December 16, 2020 00:15 IST
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December 16, 2020 00:15 IST
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A Special Bench of the Supreme Court, by a majority of nine to two, to-day [New Delhi, Dec. 15] held that the order issued by the President on September 6, derecognising the rulers was ultra vires of the Constitution and hence illegal and imperative. Allowing a batch of eight writ petitions filed by some ex-rulers with costs, the three majority judgments declared that “the petitioners will be entitled to all their pre-existing rights and privileges, including the right to privy purse, as if the order had not been made.” The Special Bench delivered five separate judgments three judgments declaring the impugned Presidential order ultra vires, and two dissenting judgments dismissing the writ petitions. The majority judgment was given by Mr. Justice Shah, with whom Mr. Justice Sikri, Mr. Justice Shelat, Mr.