High Courts Must Function Like Emergency Wards Of Hospitals With Swift & Precise Response: Justice Surya Kant

High Courts must evolve into institutions that respond to injustice with the immediacy and efficiency of a hospital emergency ward, said Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant on Friday. Speaking at the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Jharkhand High Court in Ranchi, Justice Surya Kant stressed that courts should be equipped to deliver rapid, precise, and coordinated relief the very moment a crisis arises, just as emergency departments cannot afford delays when lives are at stake.

"I believe that High Courts must begin to envision their institutional growth much like a modern hospital designs its emergency services—with structures that are equipped to respond swiftly, decisively, and with precision at the very moment a crisis arises. In the same way that an emergency ward cannot afford