CJI Surya Kant Calls For Uniform National Judicial Policy To Ensure Clarity And Consistency In Courts

Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Wednesday (26 November) called for the creation of a Uniform national judicial policy to promote clarity and uniformity in judicial reasoning across the country, the Indian Express reported.

Speaking at the Constitution Day celebrations organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association, the CJI said the Constitution has served as the stabilising force that enabled India’s transformation “without chaos and growth without drift”.

Emphasising the need to “reinforce predictability in our judicial approach”, CJI Kant proposed that “one constructive way forward… can be the evolution of a uniform national judicial policy—an institutional framework that encourages coherence across jurisdictions so that our courts speak with clarity and consistency.”

Marking 76 years of the Constitution, he urged renewed commitment to the principle of access to justice, calling it the foundation on which all other rights rest.

He noted a “disquieting gap between” the “constitutional vision” of access to justice “and the experiences of many.”

“If access to justice is our moral and constitutional North Star, then predictability, affordability, and timeliness form its core supports,” the CJI said.

He pointed out that for many, especially those on the margins, the ideal remains out of reach due to “exorbitant cost, language, distance, and delay”.

Such barriers, he added, magnify existing inequalities.

Calling access to justice an act of “constitutional fidelity,” he said the first step must be strengthening judicial infrastructure to improve the justice delivery system.

Reflecting on India’s evolution, the CJI said “the Constitution has remained our enduring grundnorm”, providing continuity and stability.

A key reason for this, he added, is the judiciary’s “unwavering dedication to reading the Constitution in harmony with evolving realities…”

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