CJI: Judgements Now Accessible World Over !

New Delhi, Jan 4 (UNI) Judges were reminded this evening by India's Chief Justice Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal and his designated successor K G Balakrishnan that orders they make can now be accessed around the world within minutes.

''Within minutes, everyone in the world'' can read judgements put on the web, Justice Sabharwal said as he and Justice Balakrishnan declared open a Legal Information Resource Centre across the street from the Supreme Court.

The Centre has been set up by Indian Law Institute which was termed a Deemed University by the University Grants Commission and given a Re three crore grant.

It will retrieve information available free of cost from Indian and foreign websites of apex courts, international courts, law institutions and human rights commissions.

Justice Sabharwal said anyone visiting the Centre may access causelists of India's Supreme Court and 22 High Courts, not to mention courts elsewhere, just by tapping a keyboard.

He said law is a field which never ceases to grow and develops as a society develops. ''Every day, every month, every year, there is always more to learn.'' Justice Sabharwal and Justice Balakrishnan also released two publications aimed at aiding users to refer to law journals and access relevant webs.

Justice Sabharwal congratulated ILI librarian Bhag Singh for having helped put them together.

Speaking on the occasion, Justice Balakrishnan said that upon its establishment in 1956, the ILI was intended to emerge as a centre of learning in the field of law and justice.

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