President pushes for translation of court judgments into vernacular languages
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:14.07.2019
President Ram Nath Kovind has advocated translation of certified copies of high court judgments into local languages. “It is important to not only take justice to the people, but also make it understandable to litigating parties in a language they know,” he said at the special convocation of Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University on Saturday.
Kovind recalled that he had suggested the same while addressing the Kerala high court’s diamond jubilee event in October 2017 and that the Chhattisgarh high court implemented it later.
“Our legal system has a reputation of being expensive and for being prone to delays. There are some who tend to use and abuse the instrument of adjournments as a tactic to slow down proceedings, rather than respond to a genuine emergency,” he said. He added that this makes seeking justice costly for the litigant. It would be a travesty of our republican ethic if a poor person doesn’t get the same access to the law as a rich person, he said and added that the legal profession should continue to address this collectively.
The President congratulated Justice P Sathasivam (Governor of Kerala and former CJI), Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde (judge, Supreme Court) and Justice V K Tahilramani (Chief Justice, Madras high court) on being conferred LLD (honoris causa) degrees by the university for their distinguished services to law and justice. This is the first time a university is conferring LLD degrees on three jurists at the same time.
Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami also congratulated the three jurists. He said people could live well only if the four pillars of democracy — judiciary, executive, legislature and the press — function independently and expressed happiness that it is rightly so in Tamil Nadu.
Palaniswami also highlighted the efforts taken by the state government to improve legal education. Governor Banwarilal Purohit and law minister C Ve Shanmugam also took part in the event.
IN HONOUR: (From left) President Ram Nath Kovind presented degrees of doctor of law to Chief Justice of the Madras high court V K Tahilramani, governor of Kerala and former CJI P Sathasivam and Supreme court judge Sharad Arvind Bobde at Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University on Saturday
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:14.07.2019
President Ram Nath Kovind has advocated translation of certified copies of high court judgments into local languages. “It is important to not only take justice to the people, but also make it understandable to litigating parties in a language they know,” he said at the special convocation of Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University on Saturday.
Kovind recalled that he had suggested the same while addressing the Kerala high court’s diamond jubilee event in October 2017 and that the Chhattisgarh high court implemented it later.
“Our legal system has a reputation of being expensive and for being prone to delays. There are some who tend to use and abuse the instrument of adjournments as a tactic to slow down proceedings, rather than respond to a genuine emergency,” he said. He added that this makes seeking justice costly for the litigant. It would be a travesty of our republican ethic if a poor person doesn’t get the same access to the law as a rich person, he said and added that the legal profession should continue to address this collectively.
The President congratulated Justice P Sathasivam (Governor of Kerala and former CJI), Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde (judge, Supreme Court) and Justice V K Tahilramani (Chief Justice, Madras high court) on being conferred LLD (honoris causa) degrees by the university for their distinguished services to law and justice. This is the first time a university is conferring LLD degrees on three jurists at the same time.
Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami also congratulated the three jurists. He said people could live well only if the four pillars of democracy — judiciary, executive, legislature and the press — function independently and expressed happiness that it is rightly so in Tamil Nadu.
Palaniswami also highlighted the efforts taken by the state government to improve legal education. Governor Banwarilal Purohit and law minister C Ve Shanmugam also took part in the event.
IN HONOUR: (From left) President Ram Nath Kovind presented degrees of doctor of law to Chief Justice of the Madras high court V K Tahilramani, governor of Kerala and former CJI P Sathasivam and Supreme court judge Sharad Arvind Bobde at Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University on Saturday
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