The Gujarat High Court has decided to begin live-streaming of proceedings on popular video-sharing platform YouTube.
The live streaming proceedings will begin from chief justice Vikram Nath’s court from Monday itself, Bar and Bench reported.
“Aspect of continuing with or adapting the modality of live court proceedings will be decided based on the outcome of this trial starting today and any other trial of any other modality that may be taken up in due course,” a circular released by the Gujarat High Court said.
Great that Guj HC has begun live streaming of proceedings on YouTube. Should be done by all courts including SC. Courts are meant to be public places for all to see. Why shouldn’t court proceedings be transparent& for all to see. Will discourage misconducthttps://t.co/fbUkH0ZQ7Y
— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) October 26, 2020
The link to watch the proceedings will be made available on the YouTube channel of the Gujarat High Court.
The link to live stream the proceedings will be updated every evening.
This is a first-of-its-kind decision by a High Court in the country.
The High Court referred to the Supreme Court’s judgment that the public should be allowed to view hearings through video conferencing.
All the Gujarat HC benches are already functioning through video conferencing since March because of the pandemic.