CJI DY Chandrachud announced that all Supreme Court judgements will be having "neutral citations" as a new initiative

CJI DY Chandrachud announced that all Supreme Court judgements will be having "neutral citations" as a new initiative

CJI DY Chandrachud declared on February 23 that all Supreme Court decisions will have "neutral citations." CJI DY Chandrachud announced it as a fresh endeavour and said:

"Our recent initiative is neutral citations for all judgements of the Supreme Court. So all 30,000 judgements are going to have neutral citation. First tranch will be till January 1, 2023, then the other tranch will be till judgements from 2014 and then finally we will go back to 1950. So all judgements will now have neutral citations."

CJI DY Chandrachud also stated his desire for High Courts to use impartial citations for their decisions. The High Courts of Kerala, Madras, and Delhi have currently adopted neutral citation for their rulings. 

He stated:

"We are also translating all judgments in all languages. And we're using machine learning tools and that is being verified by team of district judges. 2900 supreme court judgments are translated so far. Sometimes translations can be difficult. Because for example if we say "leave granted", it may literally translate to "avakash prapt ho gaya" so there is a team of district judges and law researchers assisting. Supreme Court will be funding it all."

The Supreme Court's eCommittee's chair, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, assembled a team of three high court judges in 2022 to develop a framework for formulating impartial citations for referencing decisions from both the high courts and the supreme court. In addition to being requested to suggest procedures and submit a report to the eCommittee, Justices Rajiv Shakdher of the Delhi High Court, Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V of the Kerala High Court, and Judge Suraj Govind Raj of the Karnataka High Court were also named as members of the committee. The committee's convenor was named as Ramesh Babu, Member (Project Management), eCommittee, Supreme Court.

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