Prudence is different from knowledge: CJI

Key Highlights

• “It is knowing when to insist on the letter of the law and when to understand the purpose it seeks to serve,” he said at the convocation, being held after a gap of four years.
• Graduate and postgraduate pass-outs were all given their degrees at the convocation, which was attended by Supreme Court justices Dipankar Dutta and Joymalya Bagchi and Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul.
• “We live in an age of immediacy where opinions are formed instantly, and responses are expected without waiting,” the CJI said.
• He said that in such a world, judiciousness has become rare and therefore “deeply valuable”.
• The CJI said that where efficiency competes with fairness, where professional success measured in numbers feels strangely hollow, “in those moments, rules alone will not guide you, your prudence will”.