{"id":31246,"date":"2018-10-27T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31246"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:11:18","slug":"should-supreme-court-proceedings-be-live-streamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/should-supreme-court-proceedings-be-live-streamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Supreme Court proceedings be live-streamed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/should-supreme-court-proceedings-be-live-streamed\/article22765577.ece\"><b>Should Supreme Court proceedings be live-streamed?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question is whether Supreme Court proceedings should be live-streamed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Arguments in favour:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will enable the legal system to deliver on its promise of empowering the masses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to make those matters that are of great public importance available for all to see. Example: public interest issues such as entry of women to the Sabarimala temple, or the constitutionality of the Aadhaar scheme, and similar other cases should be available for all to watch.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Strong reasons in favour of allowing live-streaming of court proceedings include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right to information,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Access to justice,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The need to build the right perception,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The need to educate common people on how the judiciary functions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To avoid multiple versions or wrong projections of facts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Arguments against:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judges are accountable neither to the general public nor to the sovereign. They are accountable only to the rule of law and to the Constitution, as established by law.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The individuality of judges is more likely to become a subject of public debate through live-streaming, creating problems of its own<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live-streaming may also create practical problems.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With live-streaming, there is a strong possibility that lawyers will tend to address not only the judges but also the public watching them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The normalcy of the proceedings may also get hampered<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way Out:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uniqueness of the Indian Supreme Court, its structure and processes, and the underlying problems that impede its effectiveness must be kept in kind<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More fundamental reforms need to be implemented. These include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greater reliance on written briefs and the significance accorded to them,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Page limits for briefs,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time limits for oral arguments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greater emphasis on preparation in advance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judiciary must also employ a press officer to liaise with the media, and issue simultaneously one or two page summaries of its judgments to facilitate greater public understanding.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of live-streaming, audio and video recordings of court proceedings would reform the administration of justice<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Supreme Court proceedings be live-streamed? Context: The question is whether Supreme Court proceedings should be live-streamed Arguments in favour: It will enable the legal system to deliver on its promise of empowering the masses It is important to make those matters that are of great public importance available for all to see. Example: public&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/should-supreme-court-proceedings-be-live-streamed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should Supreme Court proceedings be live-streamed?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704753332},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}