CJI Chandrachud says citizenry has very important position to play in safety of human rights
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NEW DELHI: Courts will not be the one recourse for the safety of human rights and the citizenry has a really very important position to play in safeguarding them, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has mentioned.
Speaking on the University of Edinburgh’s Law School on the subject “Global Change and the Legal Profession, Past and Future: Perspectives from India”, Chandrachud mentioned for a very rights-alert or a rights-vibrant society, there needs to be steady engagement between the courts, residents and civil society organisations.
“Citizenry have a very vital role to play in the protection of rights. It would be overstating the point, in my mind I would postulate, to say that courts are the only source of recourse for protection of these rights,” Chandrachud mentioned.
The CJI mentioned there’s a extra dialogic position that’s being performed by courts which emerges in the course of the course of dialogues with the court docket.
NEW DELHI: Courts will not be the one recourse for the safety of human rights and the citizenry has a really very important position to play in safeguarding them, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has mentioned.
Speaking on the University of Edinburgh’s Law School on the subject “Global Change and the Legal Profession, Past and Future: Perspectives from India”, Chandrachud mentioned for a very rights-alert or a rights-vibrant society, there needs to be steady engagement between the courts, residents and civil society organisations.
“Citizenry have a very vital role to play in the protection of rights. It would be overstating the point, in my mind I would postulate, to say that courts are the only source of recourse for protection of these rights,” Chandrachud mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The CJI mentioned there’s a extra dialogic position that’s being performed by courts which emerges in the course of the course of dialogues with the court docket.
