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He said that efforts have been made by him as well as his predecessors Justices UU Lalit and Sanjiv Khanna to foster inclusive and collective decision-making at the apex court.

The West Bengal government and Governor CV Ananda Bose have been locked in dispute over who gets the final say and supervision role over such appointments.

Justice Lalit, who serves as a Distinguished Jurist Professor at HNLU, will speak on the topic Law & Ethics in an Era of Artificial Intelligence: The Gandhian Perspective.

This, he said, has led to "quotational jurisprudence" where judgments delivered by different courts including the High Courts and trial courts are studded with “quotations".

SIAC is a global arbitral institution which also provides case management services to parties from all over the world.

The former CJI said that the use of the provision in a cavalier manner, otherwise meant for emergency situations, was not fit for a democracy governed by the rule of law and was disturbing.

The process of appointment followed by Collegium involves rigorous filtering of the names and there are lots of checks and balances, he said

Justice U.U. Lalit will be teaching the course, “Affirmative Action under the Constitution of India” to the postgraduate and undergraduate students of Jindal Global Law School.

He also said that as a judge of a Court, which upholds Constitution and which had upheld the Collegium system, he was obliged to work under that system.

In November 2017, a bench of Justices RF Nariman (now retired) and SK Kaul had struck down Section 45(1) of the PMLA insofar as it imposed two additional conditions for release on bail.

Justice Lalit was the Chancellor of NUJS during his tenure as the CJI.

Justice Lalit on Sunday said that there was nothing unusual about the listing of GN Saibaba case before the Supreme Court on October 15, a Saturday.