As CJI N V Ramana completes one year in office as the 48th Chief Justice of India, here’s a lookback at how he emerged as a people’s judge with a sharp focus on promoting access to justice.
The projected statistics that pendency in Indian courts has reached 45 million cases, which is perceived as the inability of the Indian judiciary to cope with the caseload, is an overstatement and an uncharitable analysis , said Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Saturday. Delivering his keynote address at the India-Singapore Mediation Summit titled Making Mediation mainstream: Reflections from India and Singapore , he said that people are confident that they will get relief and justice from the judiciary. People know that when things go wrong, the judiciary will stand by them. It gives them the strength to pursue a dispute.
Projected pendency of 45 million cases in courts an overstatement, uncharitable analysis: CJI Ramana ANI | Updated: Jul 18, 2021 05:27 IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): The projected statistics that pendency in Indian courts has reached 45 million cases, which is perceived as the inability of the Indian judiciary to cope with the caseload, is an overstatement and an uncharitable analysis , said Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Saturday.
Delivering his keynote address at the India-Singapore Mediation Summit titled Making Mediation mainstream: Reflections from India and Singapore , he said that people are confident that they will get relief and justice from the judiciary. People know that when things go wrong, the judiciary will stand by them. It gives them the strength to pursue a dispute.
NEW DELHI: With the pendency of cases crossing the 4.5-crore mark over burdening the three-tier justice delivery system, Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Saturday said mediation should be made mandatory as a first step for dispute resolution and a law should be framed in this regard.
“Given the growing scope of mediation, it is time for India to enter mission mode. To popularise mediation as cheaper and faster dispute resolution mechanism, a movement needs to be launched,” the CJI said.
Pendency not a useful indicator of how well a system is doing: CJI
Prescribing mediation as a mandatory first step for resolution of every allowable dispute will go a long way in promoting mediation. Perhaps, an omnibus law in this regard is needed to fill the vacuum,” the CJI said at the India-Singapore Mediation Summit on Saturday.