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NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of India’s diplomatic hardline over harbouring of terrorist and separatist Khalistani elements by Canada, PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said the world must evolve a common legal framework, on the lines of universal air-traffic control regime, to fight terrorism and disruptive forces that operate across jurisdictions to harm humanity.
Addressing an international lawyers conference organised by the Bar Council of India, Modi said though the countries in the world are connected to each other, every nation is protective about its jurisdiction. “But every country is fighting certain disruptive forces which operate regardless of jurisdiction. To counter such forces inimical to humanity, countries must come together to evolve a common regime on the lines of a unique air-traffic control regime framed with the cooperation of all countries,” he said, and was engaged in an intense conversation with Lord Chancellor and UK justice secretary Alex Chalk after the conclusion of inaugural session.
“Be it cyber-terrorism, money laundering or possible misuse of artificial intelligence, evolving a global framework to counter these forces is the need of the hour. It is not the task for individual countries or governments,” Modi said and called upon lawyers from different jurisdictions to deliberate on this pressing issue causing concerns across the world.
On the domestic front, the PM said the language used in the courts plays a significant role in ensuring justice to all. “Our focus is to simplify the law and prepare drafts of legislations in simple vernacular languages to enable common man to understand it. All laws previously were drafted in complex language understandable by lawyers and judges. Our endeavour is to bring law in two shapes — one draft for lawyers and the courts and other in simple language for commoners. We had to await 75 years to work towards this. The data protection legislation is an outcome of this effort,” the PM said.
Modi complimented CJI D Y Chandrachud and the Supreme Court for translating the operative portion of its verdicts in nine vernacular languages and said the judges need to speak to the litigant in a language understandable by the latter. “When a doctor speaks to a patient in the local language, half his ailments disappear. A similar experiment is required to be replicated in courts,” he said.
Referring to solicitor general Tushar Mehta’s enumeration of steps taken in the last decade to dispense justice at litigants’ door steps through use of information technology tools as well as mediation, the PM said India had a rich tradition in dispute resolution through the panchayat system and the government has recently brought a law on mediation to give fillip to alternative dispute-redressal system.
The PM said India’s impartial and independent judiciary and justice delivery mechanism played a significant role in increasing global trust in the country’s leadership in technology, trade and commerce and information technology. He outlined India becoming the first to land at Moon’s south pole and the display of India’s democracy, demography and diplomacy at G20 summit meetings, as well as enactment of the women’s reservation law by Parliament to emphasise his government’s endeavour to make India a developed country by 2047.
CJI Chandrachud said the aim of both the government and judiciary is to see India progress and prosper. When it comes to giving justice and succour to deprived and marginalised sections of the society, it is always a collaborative effort between the government and the judiciary, the CJI said and cited the recent case related to light commercial vehicle drivers in which the collaborative effort could provide benefits to millions of drivers.
“Justice and power must coexist harmoniously. For justice without power is meaningless and power without justice is tyranny. We must endeavour to achieve ‘whatever is just must be powerful and whatever is powerful is just’,” the CJI said. Attorney general R Venkataramani said access to justice is at the core of legal education, which must transform itself into justice education with focus on social and gender equality. Solicitor general Mehta said, “Bharat is the present and future of the world. We the legal fraternity must rise to the occasion to meet challenges from the mediation and arbitration leadership role, which Bharat is set to take up.”
BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra used the occasion to demand a health insurance scheme for the 23 lakh-strong lawyer community in India.
Addressing an international lawyers conference organised by the Bar Council of India, Modi said though the countries in the world are connected to each other, every nation is protective about its jurisdiction. “But every country is fighting certain disruptive forces which operate regardless of jurisdiction. To counter such forces inimical to humanity, countries must come together to evolve a common regime on the lines of a unique air-traffic control regime framed with the cooperation of all countries,” he said, and was engaged in an intense conversation with Lord Chancellor and UK justice secretary Alex Chalk after the conclusion of inaugural session.
“Be it cyber-terrorism, money laundering or possible misuse of artificial intelligence, evolving a global framework to counter these forces is the need of the hour. It is not the task for individual countries or governments,” Modi said and called upon lawyers from different jurisdictions to deliberate on this pressing issue causing concerns across the world.
On the domestic front, the PM said the language used in the courts plays a significant role in ensuring justice to all. “Our focus is to simplify the law and prepare drafts of legislations in simple vernacular languages to enable common man to understand it. All laws previously were drafted in complex language understandable by lawyers and judges. Our endeavour is to bring law in two shapes — one draft for lawyers and the courts and other in simple language for commoners. We had to await 75 years to work towards this. The data protection legislation is an outcome of this effort,” the PM said.
Modi complimented CJI D Y Chandrachud and the Supreme Court for translating the operative portion of its verdicts in nine vernacular languages and said the judges need to speak to the litigant in a language understandable by the latter. “When a doctor speaks to a patient in the local language, half his ailments disappear. A similar experiment is required to be replicated in courts,” he said.
Referring to solicitor general Tushar Mehta’s enumeration of steps taken in the last decade to dispense justice at litigants’ door steps through use of information technology tools as well as mediation, the PM said India had a rich tradition in dispute resolution through the panchayat system and the government has recently brought a law on mediation to give fillip to alternative dispute-redressal system.
The PM said India’s impartial and independent judiciary and justice delivery mechanism played a significant role in increasing global trust in the country’s leadership in technology, trade and commerce and information technology. He outlined India becoming the first to land at Moon’s south pole and the display of India’s democracy, demography and diplomacy at G20 summit meetings, as well as enactment of the women’s reservation law by Parliament to emphasise his government’s endeavour to make India a developed country by 2047.
CJI Chandrachud said the aim of both the government and judiciary is to see India progress and prosper. When it comes to giving justice and succour to deprived and marginalised sections of the society, it is always a collaborative effort between the government and the judiciary, the CJI said and cited the recent case related to light commercial vehicle drivers in which the collaborative effort could provide benefits to millions of drivers.
“Justice and power must coexist harmoniously. For justice without power is meaningless and power without justice is tyranny. We must endeavour to achieve ‘whatever is just must be powerful and whatever is powerful is just’,” the CJI said. Attorney general R Venkataramani said access to justice is at the core of legal education, which must transform itself into justice education with focus on social and gender equality. Solicitor general Mehta said, “Bharat is the present and future of the world. We the legal fraternity must rise to the occasion to meet challenges from the mediation and arbitration leadership role, which Bharat is set to take up.”
BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra used the occasion to demand a health insurance scheme for the 23 lakh-strong lawyer community in India.
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