"Should've Happened Earlier": Chief Justice On Deaf Lawyer Arguing In Court
NDTV
The Chief Justice had instructed the control room and the interpreter to give screen space to the lawyer during a virtual hearing.
The experience of watching a deaf lawyer arguing in the Supreme Court on Monday stayed with Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, who has remarked he realised only later that it was the first time that had happened, and said it shouldn't have taken so long.
During an event organised by the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association on Tuesday, the Chief Justice referred to lawyer Sara Sunny arguing in a case related to persons with disabilities. He was all praise for her and her interpreter Saurabh Roy Choudhary and remarked on how Mr Choudhary gave her all the information on the hearings in the 36 cases that preceded hers, and even conveyed a sense of the mood of the court.
"I realised later that this was the first case of its kind in the Supreme Court, and how long it took us to reach here and make this happen. It should have happened earlier," the Chief Justice said.
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