Right way to legal reforms

In 2009, the Union government released the vision document ‘National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms’. The document included a series of policy initiatives aimed at reducing the pendency of cases from an average of 15 years down to 3 years within a 3-year period. The highlights of the proposed initiatives included increasing court working hours, providing a greater number of courts, training judicial officers, legal education reforms and the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) support systems. A large part of the reforms are merely structural and institutional, and aimed at providing a greater number of facilities to accommodate the existing caseload, which does not necessarily help the existing legal framework.

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