Prompt Listing, Live Streaming: CJI UU Lalit Completes One Month Tenure, CJAR Lauds Efforts

On the occasion of his completing one month tenure as the 49^th CJI, the organization congratulated Justice Lalit for onsetting the live streaming of Constitution Bench hearings in the Supreme Court.

"Live streaming of court proceedings increases transparency in the functioning of courts, ushers in judicial accountability and increases public confidence in the judiciary. Besides this, livestreaming has an enormous benefit to legal education. We expect the Supreme Court to extend this to all benches and all hearings."

The organization was all praises for the CJI over his determination to ensure prompt and systematic listing of all pending cases, including those concerning important questions of public and constitutional significance.

It also lauded the Collegium's efforts to evaluate judges on the basis of their performance and reinforcing faith in the judicial system.

"The criteria for selecting judges should be largely objective, detailed and transparent…(It) is crucial to building an independent institution free of partiality and nepotism."

However, it urged that reasoned decisions of the Collegiums meetings, minutes and resolutions must be uploaded on the Supreme Court website.

Justice UU Lalit was appointed as 49th Chief Justice of India, on 27th of August 2022. He will have a relatively short term of 74 days. He is to retire on 8th November, 2022.

Before his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court on August 13, 2014, Justice Lalit was a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court. His father Justice UR Lalit was a Senior Advocate and was an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court.