Wednesday, October 10, 2012

RURAL COURTS: A NOBLE IDEA

Many people die before their cases come to a logical and fair end...

It must be noted here that a novel idea has been adopted by the Gujarat Government by introducing evening courts. This has enabled the daily wage earners to attend the courts after a full day of work. Quite credibly, a figure of 45 lakh pending cases in 2003, with 65 lakhs new cases, have been reduced to only 20 lakhs of backlog cases as on date.

The Central Government, on the other hand, wants these new courts to follow the Singapore model, where the civil or commercial disputes will be resolved using mediation and conciliation mechanism. The ‘Singapore Mediation Centre’ follows a method where the arbitrator has to repay the entire fees in failing to resolve the case in 40 days. Even this kind of efficiency could make our judiciary more accountable to the poor people who have almost but lost their faith in our judicial system. The fact remains that the faster a case is resolved – even if wrongly – improves the chances of the future of our judiciary. We’re all praying...


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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