Courts “deepen” democracy when they “act to empower the powerless, grounded in constitutional text and moral clarity”, Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant said Thursday.

He was speaking at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on ‘The living Constitution: How the Indian Judiciary Shapes and Safeguards Constitutionalism’.

Justice Kant also spoke at the Inaugural BASL Human Rights Oration organised by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka in collaboration with Commonwealth Legal Education Association on the theme ‘Strengthening a Legal Aid System to Achieve Human Rights of Marginalized and Minorities: The Indian Case Study’ where he said the mission of the colonial administration to “civilise was, in reality, an exercise of power that curtailed many of the rights and freedoms Indians had traditiona

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