Justice Lalit, who serves as a Distinguished Jurist Professor at HNLU, will speak on the topic Law & Ethics in an Era of Artificial Intelligence: The Gandhian Perspective.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged to strengthen judicial infrastructure, focusing on physical, digital, and human resources. Challenges exist in all areas, but especially in lower courts. Most court complexes in Gujarat, Sikkim, and Tripura are inaccessible through public transport, with only 40% having functioning washrooms and 11% accessible for disabled individuals.
The Supreme Court transfers all proceedings before the Calcutta High Court in a case over fake certificates to itself. This comes after a controversy erupted over the remarks passed by a single-judge bench of the high court against a judge of a division bench. The Supreme Court stays the high court proceedings and verbally observes that it will deal with the matter "differently". The central government requests the Supreme Court to shift the entire proceedings of the case outside West Bengal for a hearing de-novo, with due regard to institutional integrity and the personalities involved.
Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said that an independent judiciary is not merely insulation of the judiciary from the executive and the legislature but the independence of judges to perform their given duties | Latest News India
India News: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud emphasized the importance of an independent judiciary on the occasion of the Supreme Court's 75th anniversary. H