#InternationalLawyersConference : Utopian to think that there will be a day when “we find perfect solutions with no challenges to the justice delivery – D Y Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India

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Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has said institutional collaboration is the precursor to solution finding while adjudicating judicial questions and it also plays a significant role in increasing access to justice.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) two-day ‘International Lawyers Conference 2023’ in the capital, he said it is utopian to think that there will be a day when “we find perfect solutions with no challenges to the justice delivery”.

“However, it is definitively not utopian to aspire for a world where nations, institutions and most importantly individuals are open to engage with and learn from one another without feeling threatened or belittled,” the Chief Justice of India (CJI) said.

He said that while the Constitution provides for separation of power among the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, it also creates a space for institutions to learn from each other and deliver justice.

“Institutional collaboration is a precursor to solution finding not only while adjudicating judicial questions but it also plays a significant role in increasing access to justice,” Justice Chandrachud said.

The CJI was the chief guest of the programme which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice of the United Kingdom Alex Chalk KC, Attorney General for India R Venkataramani, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Bar Council of India chairman and senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra and others, including several judges of the apex court, were present at the event.