President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday voiced worry over India’s lawful framework, and said it has a notoriety for being “costly” and is “inclined to delays”. Conveying the third Foundation Day address at the National Law University in Cuttack, Kovind said that it would be a “tragedy of our Republican morals” if the poor did not get an indistinguishable access to law from the rich.
“Our lawful framework has a notoriety for being costly and for being inclined to delays. The utilization and mishandle of the instrument of deferments is frequently done by advocates who consider suspension to be a strategy to back off the procedures, instead of a reaction to a honest to goodness crisis,” he stated, adding that it adds to the cost of equity for the defendant.
Kovind said it is the obligation of the legal counselor group and a backer to help the court in conveyance of equity. The president called for rearrangements of legitimate principles and improvement of lawful proficiency. He additionally prompted understudies to enter the calling with their psyche as well as with the heart. A profoundly enthusiastic and glad minute for me today as Anand Bhawan Museum and Learning Center, Biju Babu’s familial house, was devoted to the Nation by Hon’ble President Shri Ram Nath Kovind.
#PresidentKovind delivers the Foundation Day Lecture of National Law University, Odisha; says for all its advances, at its root the legal profession has a simple aspiration – for the lawyer to be a voice for the voiceless and to bring justice to the most deprived pic.twitter.com/uj4z7Fter7
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
Kovind watched that as the economy has developed, legitimate calling, as well, has extended, and business and business law have turned out to be more vital, complex and mentally invigorating.
“Intervention and globalization of legitimate administrations, through systems, for example, outsourcing, have additionally connected the present legal advisors with whatever is left of our planet,” he said. With innovation out-pacing changes in law, attorneys are called upon to create administrative systems for and in to a great degree dynamic and advancing mechanical conditions, he said.
“They (the legal counselors) should make rules and lawful systems for space, for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and for computerized reasoning. “They should compose laws for new conditions amongst people and machines, regardless of whether driver-less autos or advancements in agribusiness and prescription,” he said. Boss Justice of India Justice Dipak Misra, who was likewise present on the event, said understudies who move on from the college ought to wind up foundations of freedom, equity and fairness.
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Here is the series of tweets from our President-
NLUO has become a major centre for legal education in not just Odisha but across our country. It is recognised as a centre of excellence, attracting students from 25 of India’s 29 states #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
Modernisation of the legal profession has kept pace with the rise in opportunities for young lawyers. While litigation in courtroom remains at the core of legal practice, a law graduate today finds many avenues open that were not available to previous generations #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
As our economy has grown, the legal profession too has expanded. Commercial and business law have become more important, complex and intellectually stimulating. If this is true domestically, it is also true internationally #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
Trade and commerce, international agreements and even diplomacy increasingly turn to lawyers and legal minds for negotiations and drafting of texts. Arbitration and globalisation of legal services have linked today’s lawyers with the rest of our planet #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
Lawyers are called upon to develop regulatory frameworks for and in extremely dynamic & evolving technological environments. This has been true for cyberspace & for Internet law. In the years ahead, legal practitioners will have to meet many more such challenges #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
Lawyers will have to create rules and legal frameworks for outer space, for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and for Artificial Intelligence. They will have to write laws for new equations between humans and machines #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
NLUO is equipping its students in new fields. Using the Govt of India’s GIAN programme, it has offered courses in international e-commerce law and in corporate governance in India. These have involved guest faculty from the United States and Singapore #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
I have spoken earlier of need to enhance legal literacy and simplify legal rules – as well as for quick availability of certified translated copies of HC judgements in the local language of the state. Some High Courts have responded to this positively #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
While the judicial system has its responsibilities, so does the lawyer community. An advocate is a law officer of the court. He or she has a responsibility to the client, but also a duty to assist the court in delivery of justice #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
Our legal system has a reputation for being expensive and for being prone to delays. Use and abuse of instrument of adjournments is often done by advocates who see adjournment as a tactic to slow down proceedings, rather than a response to a genuine emergency #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
This adds to the cost of obtaining justice for the litigant. It would be a travesty of our republican ethic if a poor person did not get the same access to the law as a rich person. Unfortunately, in practice this is happening #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
These are issues for the emerging generation of lawyers to ponder. Opportunities & rewards of this profession, both intellectual and financial, are enormous. But a good legal professional is not just somebody with a mind; he or she is also somebody with a heart #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 17, 2018
Hon Presidnet’s responsiblity will not be end by spoken heavily abou the delay of Indian Judiciary. As a constitutional head and appointint autboirty of judges the hon preseidnet should find out the problems and solution for the dealying justice. The above had been throughly explained in my book Appointment & Removal of Judges- Indian context published through notionpress.com