Big footwear to fill after CJI Lalit; hope to proceed his good work: Justice Chandrachud
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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court decide Justice DY Chandrachud, who will take oath because the fiftieth Chief Justice of India (CJI) on November 9, stated on Monday that he has “very big-sized shoes to fill” as Justice UU Lalit’s successor and hoped to proceed the “good work” initiated by him.
CJI Lalit, who had a brief tenure of 74 days as the top of the judiciary, is about to demit the workplace on the age of 65 years on November 8 which is a court docket vacation.
Justice Chandrachud, whereas addressing the farewell operate organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for Justice Lalit, stated the forty ninth CJI confirmed outstanding management and was dedicated to rising entry to justice throughout his tenure.
CJI Lalit prioritised itemizing of essential constitutional points, decreased pendency and helped remodel the picture of the establishment from a “colonial justice delivery system to a system where people have to be reached out to”, the senior-most apex court docket decide stated.
“Personally, as your successor, I am conscious that I have very big sized shoes to fill because you have really raised the bar for the chief justice,” Justice Chandrachud, who’s the son of former CJI YV Chandrachud, stated.
Elevated as a decide of the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016, Justice Chandrachud may have a tenure of two years because the CJI and is because of retire on November 10, 2024.
The occasion was attended by a number of dignitaries, together with judges of the Supreme Court and Attorney General of India R Venkatramani.
“We have seen how he (CJI Lalit) prioritised listing of important constitutional cases and how he ensured accessibility to these hearings for general public by live streaming them. (addressed issued concerning) listing process and improving transparency in registry and decreasing pendency. During my tenure, I hope to continue all the good work that CJI Lalit has begun,” Justice Chandrachud stated.
He emphasised that establishments strengthen when people work collectively and added that CJI Lalit “expanded the reach of the National Legal Services Authority” and “rolled the wheel in helping us transform the image of our institution from a colonial justice delivery system to a system where people have to be reached out to”.
Justice Lalit turned the second CJI to be immediately elevated to the apex court docket bench from the Bar.
Justice S M Sikri, who turned the thirteenth CJI in January 1971, was the primary lawyer to be elevated on to the highest court docket bench in March 1964.
Justice Chandrachud stated CJI Lalit, whose profession is a mirrored image to public service, was collaborative and consultative with different judges on the bench and was above all, compassionate.
His tenure as a decide and CJI was marked with an in depth collaboration with the Bar and “that sense of stability” should proceed to stay, which might be my endeavour as nicely, he stated.
Justice Lalit was a senior advocate and was appointed a particular public prosecutor for the CBI to conduct the trial within the 2G spectrum allocation case earlier than being appointed a decide of the apex court docket on August 13, 2014.
SCBA president senior advocate Vikas Singh stated though CJI Lalit “unfortunately had a very short tenure”, he addressed points raised by the Bar, together with itemizing of circumstances and “(these) 74 days are a testimony of all that has been done”.
“The kind of humbleness that he talked to lawyer”there was a lot respect proven to junior-most members of the Bar. It was so humbling,” the senior lawyer stated.
In his handle, Justice Chandrachud said that whereas appointment to the Supreme Court is an honour, “it can also be daunting for judges coming from the high courts” as the highest court docket “has its own work rhythm” and offers with a wide range of legal guidelines and he “came to grips with criminal law” whereas sitting with the outgoing CJI.
He additionally stated that one doesn’t settle for judgeship for financial necessities or the perquisites as they’re all “in vain” if one just isn’t true to the “call of consciousness which leads to these offices”.
Justice Chandrachud stated that CJI Lalit’s manner was an instance on how “we can remain calm even in the most stressful of solutions”, which “reflected his temperament— a yearning to reach out to unheard voices”.
“As a chief, despite the limitation on time, he has been kind enough to hear every one, take multiple steps to provide solutions while prioritising consultation and deliberation,” Justice Chandrachud stated.
He additionally shared his alternate with CJI Lalit on the latter’s dialog with a former CJI on how a decide ought to learn a quick, which “left a deep imprint on his mind”.
The objective of a decide studying a quick is to “meet the lawyer” intellectually and to not “beat the lawyer” by means of aggression in court docket, he shared.
During the occasion, SCBA vice-president Pradeep Rai additionally responded to Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s latest assertion on the current Supreme Court collegium system for appointment of judges being “opaque”, saying the “Bar cannot remain silent”.
Rai asserted that the “collegium system is working absolutely nicely” and stated “he (law minister) is a political person (but) judges do not have the medium to say something or make a statement”.
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court decide Justice DY Chandrachud, who will take oath because the fiftieth Chief Justice of India (CJI) on November 9, stated on Monday that he has “very big-sized shoes to fill” as Justice UU Lalit’s successor and hoped to proceed the “good work” initiated by him.
CJI Lalit, who had a brief tenure of 74 days as the top of the judiciary, is about to demit the workplace on the age of 65 years on November 8 which is a court docket vacation.
Justice Chandrachud, whereas addressing the farewell operate organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for Justice Lalit, stated the forty ninth CJI confirmed outstanding management and was dedicated to rising entry to justice throughout his tenure.
CJI Lalit prioritised itemizing of essential constitutional points, decreased pendency and helped remodel the picture of the establishment from a “colonial justice delivery system to a system where people have to be reached out to”, the senior-most apex court docket decide stated.
“Personally, as your successor, I am conscious that I have very big sized shoes to fill because you have really raised the bar for the chief justice,” Justice Chandrachud, who’s the son of former CJI YV Chandrachud, stated.
Elevated as a decide of the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016, Justice Chandrachud may have a tenure of two years because the CJI and is because of retire on November 10, 2024.
The occasion was attended by a number of dignitaries, together with judges of the Supreme Court and Attorney General of India R Venkatramani.
“We have seen how he (CJI Lalit) prioritised listing of important constitutional cases and how he ensured accessibility to these hearings for general public by live streaming them. (addressed issued concerning) listing process and improving transparency in registry and decreasing pendency. During my tenure, I hope to continue all the good work that CJI Lalit has begun,” Justice Chandrachud stated.
He emphasised that establishments strengthen when people work collectively and added that CJI Lalit “expanded the reach of the National Legal Services Authority” and “rolled the wheel in helping us transform the image of our institution from a colonial justice delivery system to a system where people have to be reached out to”.
Justice Lalit turned the second CJI to be immediately elevated to the apex court docket bench from the Bar.
Justice S M Sikri, who turned the thirteenth CJI in January 1971, was the primary lawyer to be elevated on to the highest court docket bench in March 1964.
Justice Chandrachud stated CJI Lalit, whose profession is a mirrored image to public service, was collaborative and consultative with different judges on the bench and was above all, compassionate.
His tenure as a decide and CJI was marked with an in depth collaboration with the Bar and “that sense of stability” should proceed to stay, which might be my endeavour as nicely, he stated.
Justice Lalit was a senior advocate and was appointed a particular public prosecutor for the CBI to conduct the trial within the 2G spectrum allocation case earlier than being appointed a decide of the apex court docket on August 13, 2014.
SCBA president senior advocate Vikas Singh stated though CJI Lalit “unfortunately had a very short tenure”, he addressed points raised by the Bar, together with itemizing of circumstances and “(these) 74 days are a testimony of all that has been done”.
“The kind of humbleness that he talked to lawyer”there was a lot respect proven to junior-most members of the Bar. It was so humbling,” the senior lawyer stated.
In his handle, Justice Chandrachud said that whereas appointment to the Supreme Court is an honour, “it can also be daunting for judges coming from the high courts” as the highest court docket “has its own work rhythm” and offers with a wide range of legal guidelines and he “came to grips with criminal law” whereas sitting with the outgoing CJI.
He additionally stated that one doesn’t settle for judgeship for financial necessities or the perquisites as they’re all “in vain” if one just isn’t true to the “call of consciousness which leads to these offices”.
Justice Chandrachud stated that CJI Lalit’s manner was an instance on how “we can remain calm even in the most stressful of solutions”, which “reflected his temperament— a yearning to reach out to unheard voices”.
“As a chief, despite the limitation on time, he has been kind enough to hear every one, take multiple steps to provide solutions while prioritising consultation and deliberation,” Justice Chandrachud stated.
He additionally shared his alternate with CJI Lalit on the latter’s dialog with a former CJI on how a decide ought to learn a quick, which “left a deep imprint on his mind”.
The objective of a decide studying a quick is to “meet the lawyer” intellectually and to not “beat the lawyer” by means of aggression in court docket, he shared.
During the occasion, SCBA vice-president Pradeep Rai additionally responded to Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s latest assertion on the current Supreme Court collegium system for appointment of judges being “opaque”, saying the “Bar cannot remain silent”.
Rai asserted that the “collegium system is working absolutely nicely” and stated “he (law minister) is a political person (but) judges do not have the medium to say something or make a statement”.
