NEW DELHI: To understand the bottlenecks affecting speedy conclusion of criminal trials in India, the Law Ministry has decided to engage leading institutes to study court management system.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Law Universities are among the 14 institutes that have been roped to study the problems and suggest measures to tackle the huge pendency of cases. They will suggest new performance indicators for subordinate judiciary and redesigning of the country’s legal education system.
IIT, Kharagpur has been asked to study the designing of the legal education system for evolving a better and efficient justice delivery system. While the judicial academy in Jharkhand has been sanctioned a project to study major bottlenecks in procedural laws, IIM Kashipur will be studying performance indicators for subordinate courts and procedural changes for reducing civil case pendency.
The NALSAR law university in Hyderabad has been asked to study court management techniques for improving the efficiency of subordinate courts. The university will also conduct a study to create evidence based proposals for reform in legal education system.
The National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata will be studying the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism and legal aid in settlement of disputes.
The government has proposed to promote ADR mechanism such as mediation, conciliation, arbitration and Lok Adalats as an effective means of settling disputes. National Law University Odisha will do an analysis of performance appraisal mechanisms and scheme of promotion for trial court judges.