Goa, July 24 -- MARIAN PINHEIRO

Justice is an elusive, highly elas tic, deeply subjective, concept prone to shifting definition. This inherent elasticity is not, by itself, a structural flaw; legal sys tems require a degree of flexibili ty to adapt to the complexities of human life. However, when elasticity de volves into unpredictability, the rule of law is replaced by the rule of chance. In India, the uncertainties creeping into the judicial process have reached a scale that is deeply unsettling to the ordinary citizen. I. The Why The "Why" of a judiciary is to resolve disputes by applying es tablished legal rules to specific facts? If so, modern Artificial In telligence systems could easily re place human judges. An algorithm can dige...