New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said that it is deliberating to employ sign-language interpreters in all Constitution Bench hearings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was telling the Secretary-General that now for Constitution benches, let us have an interpreter so that the hearings are understood by all,\u201d said CJI DY Chandrachud after a hearing-impaired lawyer joined the proceedings in the Chief Justice\u2019s court with the assistance of an interpreter appointed by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
The CJI encouraged the specially-abled lawyer and said that she should start arguing her own matters with the assistance of an interpreter.<\/p>\n
In a first of its kind move, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed its Registry for appointment of a sign-language interpreter to assist a specially-abled lawyer in attending the court proceedings.<\/p>\n
Advocate-on-Record Sanchita Ain had moved an application before the top court seeking a sign-language interpreter for her hearing-impaired colleague. It was requested that the sign-language interpreter may join the proceedings virtually whenever the matter is taken up for hearing to enable the deaf lawyer to attend the hybrid proceedings from Bengaluru.<\/p>\n
On Friday, CJI Chandrachud also informed that he has asked the Registrar (Listing) to list all pending 7-judge and 9-judge Constitution Bench matters for directions on October 12.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will at least get the basic formalities of filing compilations, etc. in three weeks. Then, we are going to list all these 7-judge, 9-judge or 5-judge matters,\u201d he said. CJI Chandrachud added that some of the 7-judge or 9-judge Constitution Bench matters are pending for two decades and they will not take more than a half of a day or a day at most.<\/p>\n
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