Q. In which case, SC has emphasized to Impart Gender Sensitization Training to Judges, and to Include Such Courses in LLB & AIBE Syllabus?

that gender sensitization training should be imparted to Judges and public prosecutors.

In doing so, the bench also observed that each High Court should formulate a module on judicial sensitivity to sexual offences, to be tested in the JUDICIAL SERVICES EXAMINATION.

It also directed the Bar Council of India to take steps to include such courses as part of LLB and AIBE syllabus.

"The National Judicial Academy is hereby requested to devise, speedily, the necessary inputs which have to be made part of the TRAINING OF YOUNG JUDGES, as well as form part of judges' continuing education with respect to gender sensitization, with adequate awareness programs regarding STEREOTYPING AND UNCONSCIOUS BIASES that can creep into judicial reasoning.

The syllabi and content of such courses shall be framed after necessary consultation with sociologists and teachers in psychology, gender studies or other relevant fields, preferably within three months.