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Jan 13, 2024 · India’s government would seem to have a direct interest in easing the delays: It is the country’s biggest litigant, accounting for nearly 50 percent of pending cases. Image Lawyers preparing ...
- India’s Daunting Case Backlog
- The Causes of India’s Case Backlog
- Ideas For Judicial Reform
- Conclusion
- Notes
Of course, this pendency problem is a long-standing issue across the Indian judiciary. At present, the high courts list 5.8 million pending cases, even though their average rate of disposal between 2015 and 2019 was about 1.8 million cases per year. In most years, the number of cases disposed of is lower than the number of cases instituted, so the ...
Pendency has several causes on both the demand side (the growing number of fresh cases) and the supply side (the slow disposal rate). Demand-side causes include the expansive jurisdiction granted to the judiciary in the Indian Constitution, excessive government litigation, rapid social and economic changes leading to more disputes, and so on. Suppl...
Running an efficient, modern judiciary necessitates successfully carrying out a range of administrative functions, including activities related to managing and maintaining the courts (such as case, facility, financial, and human resource management). To be clear, better administration is no more a panacea for judicial productivity than increasing t...
To start reducing its judicial case backlog and achieve a robust economic recovery from the pandemic, India needs a strategy that focuses on both the immediate problems facing its judiciary and their root causes. The Indian government should address the institutional weaknesses that hold the country’s economy back. The problems of the Indian judici...
1The NCLT also suffers from a lack of adequate member strength. The presidency has been vacant since January 5, 2020. 2Authors’ analysis based on a dataset of budgetary figures curated from government budget documents. See the hyperlinks above for select examples of these documents. 3A framework document reflects an agreement reached by the lord ch...
Jul 30, 2023 · India's top court has a backlog of nearly 70,000 cases, and many say this is impeding justice. ... a whopping 40% of the cases in the court had been pending for more than five years - up from 7% ...
Jun 27, 2023 · A 2018 analysis by the government-run Niti Aayog public policy think tank estimated that it would take 324 years to clear India’s overall backlog of judicial cases.
70,000 cases, reflective of the overwhelming backlog of judicial caseload. Representing a population of over 1 billion, the Supreme Court and its lower courts face a substantial workload. This blog aims to examine the distribution of these pending cases and its impact, particularly on the number of under-trial cases. Rise in pending cases
Jan 21, 2024 · This case is not an isolated incident but emblematic of a larger issue: a backlog that has doubled over the past two decades, leaving more than 50 million cases pending across the nation.
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Jan 13, 2020 · The fundamental reason why Indian courts have a huge backlog of cases. Timely disposal of cases is essential for maintaining the rule of law and providing access to justice, which is a guaranteed fundamental right under the Constitution, but courts — including the Supreme Court and High Courts — take far too many vacations during the year.
