7,000 rural courts to be set up: law minister
Apr 21, 2007 - 8:49:48 PM
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Justice Ashok Bhan of the Supreme Court said that alternative legal systems like ADR could reduce the rush of cases before regular courts as petty cases could be disposed of by these.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] Chandigarh, April 21 - The government is planning to set up 7,000 rural courts across India to take justice to the doorstep of the rural people, central law and justice minister H.R. Bhardwaj said Saturday.
Inaugurating a seminar on 'ADR: arbitration, conciliation and mediation' here, Bhardwaj said that providing speedy and free justice to rural poor was the biggest challenge for the country's judicial system.
'A bill in this regard will be presented in the next session of parliament,' the law minister said here.
He said that the government wanted to re-orient the legal talent by providing them with international legal systems.
Bhardwaj said that the Lok Adalat system was showing good results but an alternative dispute resolution system to be managed by specially trained young lawyers with expertise in mediation and conciliation to manage these centres is required.
He hoped that the Punjab and Haryana High Court would set up an ADR centre soon.
Supreme Court judge H.S. Bedi said that a large number of cases were pending before various courts in the country and given the strength of judges available, it would take 200 years to dispose them.
Justice Ashok Bhan of the Supreme Court said that alternative legal systems like ADR could reduce the rush of cases before regular courts as petty cases could be disposed of by these.
He said that high court judges could sit for additional hours after court timings to dispose of cases. He cited the example of Gujarat where 66,000 cases were disposed in three months by judges who had put in extra working hours.
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