India, Jan. 28 -- Inherent biases, social and political pressure should not cloud the art of judging, said Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud on Sunday as he said that an independent judiciary is not merely insulation of the judiciary from the executive and the legislature but the independence of judges to perform their given duties.

Addressing the diamond jubilee celebrations of the establishment of the Supreme Court, CJI spoke on the "structural issues" of pendency, adjournment culture and archaic procedures that need to be addressed at the earliest and favoured a conversation to begin on long vacations for courts by working on alternatives such as "flexitime" for lawyers and judges.

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