Chief Justice of India (CJI) PS Thakur has on Saturday said that globalised movement of knowledge and its products, impacts our societies and their functioning. This poses a global challenge for the judiciary's two key instruments: Rule of law and of reason.
As the science and technology for discovering and hiding truth advances, the judiciary's task of capturing relevant facts, rests on knowledge of such science and technology.
CJI in his address at retreat of Supreme Court Judges at the National Judicial Academy here said we are proud that our quest for knowledge, as part of our constitutional role of being the guardians of the Constitution of India, is valued by you.
“Virtual reality increasingly becomes actual reality. Nature is no longer captured and processed. It is created in the petri dish. The challenges posed by these developments, to individuals, social, economic and political systems, necessitates exposition, thought and interaction in key areas of evolving knowledge,” he added.
“One may ask why a Retreat. The answer is straight and simple. Because hyper global challenge and its pace of change demand a total focus away from the daily turmoil and struggle in the courts. In the global race for control of creation and its conversion into currency, both domestic and international law have an innovation lag. This can be overcome only by understanding the reason for it. The understanding of the forces behind the lag in the law, compared to the knowledge explosion in other fields, needs a reflexive environment in which the judicial mind can absorb and contemplate,” the CJI added.