Supreme Court Judge Justice DY Chandrachud to speak on "The Narrative of Justice" at @IDIALaw Annual Conference on Law and Storytelling. 
Chandrachud J. begins his keynote address by narrating a story of a Parsi matrimonial dispute he heard during his tenure in Bombay HC.
"Some cases tell you that human relations are not cast in stone"
"Some cases tell you that human relations are not cast in stone"
Witnesses in Court give you a testimony; Clients share their confidence; Counsels make their submissions; judges give their opinions and deliver judgements; legislation gives you a statute; but what do spouses do? They engage in act of privileged communication - Chandrachud J.
Judges are like craftsmen, Good judges like to explain their judgments - Chandrachud J.
Like chapters of a novel, precedents in Courts serve as a chain of command and line of precedent - Chandrachud J.
Unless we view our Constitution as a fundamentally transformative document, we will perhaps lose the essence of the Constitution that it was meant to be a Constitution for the people. - Chandrachud J.
Real challenge before a Judge, lawyer or a policy researcher is that a conflict to be decided is not always a conflict between right and wrong but sometimes between right and right or even right and power. - Chandrachud J.
Great challenge for a modern Judge, particularly in our country, is the fact that in your effort to deal with a mass of litigation and to ensure you promote high degree of consistency there's a grave danger of losing individual narratives - Chandrachud J.
On S. #377 Judgement, Chandrachud J says that the problem in the law was the silencing of a whole set of individuals.
India's narrative is the narrative of plurality and diversity which is the essence of freedom which we visualise for the future. To deny narrative is to deny identity. - Chandrachud J.
Our Constitution itself is built of various narratives. The narrative of our constitution is to transform, obliterate discrimination, and galvanize social reform - Chandrachud J.
Reading of the Constitution is a dynamic process and must evolve to accomodate growing narratives and identity... and identity is not cast in stone - Chandrachud J.
Spirit of Constitution in essence is the spirit of social progress - Chandrachud J.
The spirit of @IDIALaw is to increase representation in law schools and legal profession. - Chandrachud J.
Purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think upon - Chandrachud J while concluding his keynote address at the @IDIALaw Annual Conference on Law and Storytelling
The second keynote address at the @IDIALaw Annual Conference on Law and Storytelling by award winning poet, lyricist and screenwriter @Javedakhtarjadu on "How to tell a tale"
Religion is the best example of how Law can use stories and stories can use Law. Mythology tells a story and under that garb it establishes a norm/Law, which may not always be fair - @Javedakhtarjadu at @IDIALaw Annual Conference
Only when we all put our belief in the faith and story of human beings will all the Laws be fair. - @Javedakhtarjadu at @IDIALaw Annual Conference
Former Supreme Court Judge Justice BN Srikrishna recalls his experience working on the Mumbai Riots report at @IDIALaw Annual Conference
"When you don the robe of a Judge and sit in a Court, you owe your allegiance to the Law of the land, not to any religion"
"When you don the robe of a Judge and sit in a Court, you owe your allegiance to the Law of the land, not to any religion"
