In another citizen-centric initiative, the Supreme Court announced on Friday the launch of a new webpage on its official website that provides summaries of landmark judgments.
According to an official statement, the initiative will help citizens understand important decisions delivered by the top court, which is in line with its broader goal of ensuring an informed citizenry, promoting legal awareness, and enhancing public engagement with the law.
It added that Supreme Court decisions impact diverse areas of public life nationwide. However, complex legal language and the length of judgments can hinder citizens’ understanding of judgments and may even lead to misconceptions about important verdicts.
“The court, therefore, recognises the importance of making its judgments accessible to all citizens. To overcome this barrier and to ensure that all persons can easily understand its significant decisions, the new webpage provides accurate summaries of important decisions in simple and clear language,” it said.
The ‘Landmark Judgment Summaries’ webpage on the court website features a year-wise curated list of significant judgments of public interest. The summaries are written to allow readers to understand both the outcome of a case and the court’s reasoning, the statement said.
“The webpage will continue to be updated to include summaries of new decisions and important historical decisions. The Centre prepares the summaries for Research and Planning of the Supreme Court,” it added. Further, the statement said that each case is identifiable by a subject line that provides a one-line description and offers direct links to view the full judgment along with video recordings of the hearings and oral transcripts of the arguments, if available.
–IANS
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