CJI said- Judge should be careful while speaking during live streaming

CJI said- Judge should be careful while speaking during live streaming: said- funny comments of judges go viral on social media, we need to learn

Sat, 06 May 2023 07:58 PM (IST)
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CJI said- Judge should be careful while speaking during live streaming

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice DY Chandrachud was in Odisha on Saturday. He attended the inaugural session of the two-day National Conference on Digital Infrastructure in Cuttack. CJI said- How can you expect a justice to read a record of 15,000 pages. That's why we need digital infrastructure like paperless courts and virtual courts.
CJI Chandrachud also spoke on the other side of the digital world for the court. He said- Nowadays most of the High Courts are doing live streaming on YouTube. There was a clip on social media of a Patna High Court Justice asking an IAS officer why he was not dressed properly. Gujarat High Court Justice was asking the lawyer why he is not ready for the case.
There is a lot of funny stuff going on on youtube that we need to stop. Because what happens in court is a very serious matter. There is another aspect to what we are doing live streaming. As a judge, we need to learn. Whatever we speak in court, we have to take care of it. Because it comes under the public domain.
Chandrachud said on Cyber security how we ensure data security and data privacy. I have formed a committee. This committee is taking time because it is the most difficult and important part of our work. We are developing a national model for data protection and privacy. Whenever it is completed, we will have achieved a big milestone.
The Chief Justice said that we have recently launched an LGBTQ handbook. Soon we are also going to release a legal glossary of inappropriate words for gender. If you read a judgment in 376, you will come to know that there are many words that are inappropriate but they are used. Our Judiciary will not be small by legal glossary and with time we will move forward with legal language because we give more importance to language than subject and things.

Muskan Kumawat Journalist & Writer