President's Message

Even though required by pandemic, the necessity to enforce norms of social distancing, lockdown and restrictions on movement led to led to the rise of authoritarian trends in governance and enforcement even in those jurisdictions where maximum value is attached to individual rights and freedoms.

India has been no exception to this worldwide phenomena. Her diversity and complexities and status of a developing country having second highest population in the world posed additional challenges.

The digital divide in legal profession became suddenly very pronounced due to abrupt switch over to virtual courts to ensure hearings which had to be stopped due to