New Delhi: supreme court of India justice DY Chandrachud said during a judge’s conference on Wednesday J-20 countries analogous to the judiciary version of G20 counties, His Honour The judge must always write judgments that common people can understand because he is the one who is responsible for them either directly or indirectly.
This was under the caption “digital transformation and use of technology for enhancing judicial efficiency” Speaking at J-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Justice Chandrachud stated: “we are not like princes or kings beyond understanding.”
Possibly, he might have been reading some previous SC and HC judgments which were supposedly straightforward but would seem to be written in Greek and Latin to a majority of reasonably educated Indians i.e. interpreting the decision.
The CJI noted that judges are mainly service providers and promoters of rights-based society which means ensuring rule by law society. “Both the decision itself and how it was reached have to be transparent enough to be understood by all whether legally trained or otherwise as well as broad enough for everybody,” he added.
He was referring to a quote from Alexander Bickel’s The Least Dangerous Branch: “Judges perhaps alone among public officials sit on their pedestals; they Punish contempt and make momentous decisions about people Ronald Dworkin’s The Empire of Law states: “The courts are the capitals of legal empire while judges are its princes.” Elaborating on how rapidly Indian judiciary has embraced modern technology infrastructure for judicial administration, CJI Chandrachud explained that now Supreme Court petitions can be filed at your fingertips since FOSS powers the SC case management system: which is said to be largest in this world.
