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| "Women Advocates to be torchbearers of change in future of legal profession": Chief Justice | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI, Feb 10: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, in the annual lecture series organised to commemorate the Supreme Court's diamond jubilee, stated that women designated as senior advocates will be the torchbearers of change in the future of the legal profession in our society. Addressing an annual lecture series organised to commemorate the Supreme Court's diamond jubilee, the CJI said that prior to 2024, only 12 women had been bestowed with the title of senior advocate in the entire history of the Supreme Court.
However, recently, there was a significant shift as the Supreme Court designated an equal number of women hailing from various regions across the country as senior advocates. They (female senior advocates) will be the torchbearers of change in the future of the legal profession in our society," the CJI said
"There was once a notion of law which limited us to merely an isolated arena from society. Today, legal fora across the globe are recognizing that they cannot view themselves as divorced from the social and political realities and aspirations of the time. This recognition fosters an environment conducive to mutual learning and the exchange of ideas," the CJI said.
Addressing the gathering, CJI DY Chandrachud shared about his academic journey at Harvard Law School with International Court of Justice judge Hilary Charlesworth.
CJI DY Chandrachud said that Justice Charlesworth is an esteemed scholar, a pioneering feminist thinker, and his old friend.
At the annual lecture series organised to commemorate the Supreme Court's diamond jubilee, CJI DY Chandrachud said, "...To have more women as judges of the ICJ is not the responsibility of the court alone but the shared responsibility of nation-states and the national groups involved in the nomination process. I dare say the same in regard of more women in the judicial offices of India as well..."
CJI said that he was reading that in October last year, the ICJ amended, among other documents, its rules of courts and practice directions to make their provisions gender inclusive.
The Supreme Court of India has also made strides in this regard.
The Supreme Court released a sensitization module for the judiciary on LGBTQIA community, which seeks to sensitize members of the judiciary on concepts of gender and sexual diversity, on the usage of appropriate terminologies, and make recommendations on the protocol to be followed by courts while interacting with the members of the queer community.
Similarly, the Supreme Court recently released a handbook to combat gender stereotypes in an attempt to ensure that judges use inclusive language and consciously avoid the use of stereotypes in decision-making.
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