The Allahabad High Court recently observed that while the judicial system is often blamed for delays in the adjudication of cases, litigants and State officials were responsible for it most of the time.
Delays in getting an outcome in a case are more likely to impact female lawyers than male lawyers, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud observed on Friday during an event in Mumbai.
The CJI inaugurated the NALSA LACMS portal, mobile app and e-Prisons initiatives. The e-parole application is another initiative through which inmates can have continuity of social existence and interaction.
"Amendment of POCSO Act in a society that recognizes elopement, most of the time teenagers, who are in age of 15-17 eloped and cases are registered under POCSO Act. The Act should be amended in the case of Manipur".
Deepika Kinhal February 17, 2021 00:00 IST Pen, Paper, Roster, Staff: A Messy Knot outlookindia.com 2021-02-19T14:30:42+05:30
If a layperson was asked how she would visualise a ‘court’ to be, she is likely to describe a court-hall with a judge sitting on a pedestal, lawyer/s presenting arguments or examining a witness, and perhaps other litigants and lawyers waiting their turn to be heard. Seldom, if at all, will anyone identify a court with its various other paraphernalia beyond the court-hall.
The court registry, comprising the filing, scrutiny, process-serving, pending and other branches play a direct and critical role in the manner in which a case progresses through the justice system. Yet the popular imagination of what a court is and does remains confined to a ‘courtroom’. What happens behind-the-scenes remains strictly there behind the scenes. This lack of visibility, clarity and knowledge about the roles of actors beyond the judge acti