Improving Justice Delivery

The author suggests ways and means to expedite court proceedings

Government-Owned Institutional Arbitration like courts but less procedures: Like courts, we should have government-owned institutional arbitration. The advantage is that the public will trust it more, cost will be economical, and it will be speedy as the law of procedures is not stringently exercised in arbitration. Secondly, the Government can directly appoint arbitrators unlike judges at the collegium. Thirdly, all commercial matters should be arbitrated before the Government’s institutional arbitration, except matters which cannot be arbitrated, which can easily reduce the courts’ burden by 30 percent or more. The other advantage is that all arbitration matters have to be decided in one year, and there is only one appeal before the Supreme Court of India.