NCJ Number
107942
Date Published
1987
Length
164 pages
Annotation
This collection of papers and lectures describes the working of the Indian judicial system and compares it with that in other countries.
Abstract
Focusing on shortcomings and possible remedies, this volume suggests that judges have a mission to give justice, and courts must dispense speedy justice at low cost lest people lose faith in them. The inner contradictions of the Indian judicial system are considered in terms of the basic conflict between the Anglo-Imperial tradition and its foundation in the subjugation of the people to rulers' interests and the social justice orientation of India's Constitution. While the courts have been socially responsive in broadening access to judicial justice, the system still suffers from inequities and bureaucracy. Public interest litigation, affirmative action, and community-centered and nonadversarial processes are among innovations the courts have made within their limits. What is now needed is for the courts to be simplified, technologized, computerized, and reformed by streamlining the court hierarchy and methodology. Index.