Courtroom dramas, clipped and shared
The article examines how the live-streaming of Indian Supreme Court proceedings has inspired young law students and increased public transparency. It also addresses the controversy surrounding the potential for out-of-context social media clips to sensationalize judicial processes.
Why it matters
The intersection of judicial transparency and social media consumption is a growing concern for legal institutions globally.
From her room in a town in Assam , Tanisha Som, 24, would spend hours watching courtrooms, hundreds of kilometres away, come to life on her screen. She would watch women lawyers command the courtroom, threading their arguments through a thicket of questions from the Bench, pressing an argument here and conceding there, until even the most sceptical judges began to come around.
At the time, becoming a lawyer seemed a dream. She had little sense of what went on behind the soaring columns and heavy wooden doors of an institution that seemed built as much to inspire awe as to keep outsiders out.
Then, in 2022, the Supreme Court began live-streaming proceedings before its Constitutional Benches. These Benches comprise five or more judges deciding substantial questions concerning the interpretation of the Constitution.
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