Edited by Deepali Verma
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has remarked that Bharat is modernising its laws to better reflect the present realities and that in the previous few years, the country has gotten rid of thousands of obsolete laws from colonial times.
“Bharat is modernising laws that better showcase the present realities. Three new legislations have now replaced over 100-year-old colonial criminal laws,” the Prime Minister said during his address of the inaugural event of CLEA -Commonwealth Attorneys and Solicitors General Conference 2024.
The PM said that Bharat inherited a legal system from the colonial times. “In the past couple of years, we have made a number of changes to it. For example, Bharat has done away with thousands of obsolete laws from colonial times.”
The CLEA -Commonwealth Attorneys and Solicitors General Conference (CASGC) 2024 at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi had the Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and CJI DY Chandrachud in attendance.
The conference dealt with the theme of “Cross-Border Challenges in Justice Delivery”. The aim of this conference is to deliberate on significant issues pertaining to law and justice like judicial transition as well as the ethical dimensions of legal practice; executive accountability; and revisiting modern-day legal education, according to a release issued by the prime minister’s office.
PM Modi, during his address, said that sometimes while ensuring justice in one country requires working with other countries.
“During collaboration, we can understand each other’s systems better. Greater understanding comes with greater synergy. Synergy ensures better as well as faster justice delivery,” he said.
He remarked that 21st-century challenges cannot be fought with a 20th-century approach. It is crucial to rethink, reimagine and reform.
The PM’s address said that Bharat has a special relationship with the African Union. “We take pride that the African Union became a part of the G20 during Bharat’s presidency. This is a long-term way of addressing the aspirations of the people of Africa,” he said.
The participants of the CLEA -Commonwealth Attorneys and Solicitors General Conference 2024 were attorney generals and solicitors from the Commonwealth nations spanning the Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Caribbean in company of the various international delegations.
