New Delhi, Dec. 7 -- Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday declared that a "predictable timeline for deciding cases and a unified national policy for disposing pending matters" will be his first priority, as he laid out an ambitious roadmap for transforming India's justice-delivery system into one that is swifter, cost-effective, more inclusive and firmly oriented toward the ordinary citizen. Speaking at the 23rd Hindustan Times Leadership Summit- his first major public interaction after assuming office as the 53rd Chief Justice on November 24-CJI Kant called for urgent judicial reform anchored in accessibility and predictability, coupled with prioritisation of old matters and cases involving the common man. "My first priority will be a predictable timeline and a unified national judicial policy for early decisions of the pending cases," he said in a freewheeling conversation with Utkarsh Anand, HT's national legal editor. P14...