Overview
- The chief justice, who spoke Saturday at the Bar Association of India’s Rule of Law Convention in New Delhi, tied a larger, modern legal system to the $10 trillion ambition.
- He set three priorities for commercial law reform: predictable rules, a culture of dispute prevention through mediation, and sector-specific expertise.
- He said mediation should make lawsuits a last resort because faster, cheaper settlements would lift India’s competitiveness.
- He urged courts to treat technology as core infrastructure, citing digital case management, AI research tools, and electronic postings while keeping human judgment central.
- He framed this as a bid to attract patient capital like pension funds and integrated supply chains that need long-term legal certainty, and he presented it as a call to the bench, bar, and policymakers rather than a set of new laws.