CJI BR Gavai terms new-generation lawyers skilled in facing challenges

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai has appreciated the next generation of lawyers, calling them super efficient in handling the challenges thrown by the profession, owing to their easy adoption of modern technology and being well-versed in research.

Speaking at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the CJI said the constitutional courts in the country were custodians of the Constitution and the protectors of the rights of people, which have not only set aside legislation for violating the Constitution, but also stepped in when the executive or the legislature failed to protect citizens.

Whenever the amendment to the Constitution violated the basic structure, the top court of the country set aside the legislation. Whenever the Apex Court found that any of the laws, as enacted by the state legislature and the Parliament were beyond the permissible limits of the institution, such laws have been set aside by the constitutional courts in the country. 

No doubt the power was exercised in a very restricted manner and in rare cases, he added.

Supreme Court judge Justice Vikram Nath also spoke during the event. He said over the years, the scope of the written word in the Constitution has been widened to give true meaning to individual rights, and cannot be confined to a few letters or made subject to a restricted definition.

The right to privacy was extended the status of a fundamental right in the country just a few years ago, as in today’s age, it was almost unfathomable to imagine a citizen calling himself free, but not being able to claim privacy as a guaranteed right, he added.

Over female representation in the judiciary, the Apex Court judge said that more than 50 percent women were being selected as judicial officers. The number of women in judicial services was increasing and their representation at the High Courts & the Supreme Court was going to improve drastically in the next 10-15 years, he added.

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