While the legal profession can benefit from AI and convert it into a perk, especially for research-based activities, it will also eliminate some jobs just as the personal computer and internet did.
The compact judgment balances the concerns of unity and integrity of the nation with the requirements of procedural and substantive aspects of natural justice and holds that all administrative action is judicially reviewable.
As the Supreme Court bats for bail, there are still those held behind bars, with neither cases against them nor any opportunity of courts to address their apparent “guilt”. They are the real outcasts.
In the recent past, several eminent, reformist political thinkers have been urging the judiciary to call out the Constitutional sins of the executive branch of the government. Prominent among them is Padma Bhushan and Magsaysay awardee Arun Shourie. Last month, in a well-publicised TV interview, this intrepid scholar-journalist-politician called upon the Supreme Court “to behave as if it’s at war in defence of the Constitution”.