The right to legal aid is a cornerstone of justice and a fundamental human right that guarantees everyone, regardless of means, equal access to the judicial system. It is essential to a just an...

Judicial Activism, Judicial Restraint and Judicial Overreach are concepts or ideas that are closely related. Without one, the other cannot be put into perspective. India, the world's largest de...

Implementation and Challenges When is a village considered to be "Electrified"? Before October 1997, a village had to be classified as electrified if it used electricity inside of its...

The Adalat System was introduced by Warren Hastings in Calcutta. The visionaries had an idea to establish an efficient judiciary and as a first stem they formulated this Adalat system which pav...

"...to secure to all its citizens: Justice, Social, Economic, and Political"[1] Our constitution has the pride of being the lengthiest constitution of the world. It has been created by borro...

Lok Adalat is one of the Alternate dispute redressal mechanisms, it is a forum where disputes cases pending in the court of law or at the pre-lawsuit stage are settled and compromised appropria...

Lok Adalat means 'the court of the people'. It is a unique form of alternate dispute resolution mechanism "which seeks to amicably settle disputes between the party by combining Negotiation, me...

Maladministration is like a termite that slowly erodes the foundation of a nation and it hinders the administration from completing its task. Corruption is the root cause of this problem that o...

The concept of Lok Adalat stands as a unique contribution of the Indian legal system to world legal jurisprudence. It is an informal system of justice dispensation which has largely succeeded i...

What Does Pro Bono Mean? The term 'Pro Bono is derived from the Latin word which means "For the Public Good". As we are aware of the fact that the privileged and the underprivileged are the tw...