T.N.B. Law College
BHAGALPUR-812001 (BIHAR)
(A Constituent Unit of T.M.Bhagalpur University)
No. …………………….Dated-
To
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Sub: PROPOSED WORKSHOPON :MITIGATION OF THE MENACING BUILD UP OF
ARREARS OF CIVIL CASES (कार्यशाला -लंबित वादों के अम्बार से निपटने के संभावनाओ की तलाश)
Sir,
This institution takes pleasure in informing that the subject cited workshop is going to be organized wherein participation of enlightened people in the field of law is solicited.
Your standing and experience in the field prompts us to seek your valued participation in the workshop. The enclosure would offer a glimpse into the outlook, context, purview and pursuit of the said contemplated endeavor. The same is intended at opening a window that elicits your valuable and experience-based analysis of the broad reasons that accounts for the ever-increasing pendency of civil cases, be that for whatever reasons, but especially focusing your views on pragmatic steps, if any, which may mitigate the problem within the existing legal frame-work and set up.
Your write up may be used as resource which would form basis for the discussions to be organized at the workshop. The same would target assimilation of fruitful conclusions. Fruitful means fruitful indeed, which, once implemented, may usher the presently over-loaded legal system, into an envisaged legal environment that might promise speedy remedy. Our exploration warrants the use and application of sleek legal tactics that you might suggest with intent to curbing slack state of existing legal ordeals.
Your contribution may kindly be forwarded within a fortnight. Thereafter, an intimation would be sent, as regards the exact date and time of the workshop.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Encl.:- As above.S.K.Pandey, Prof.-incharge.
कार्यशाला
लंबित वादों के अम्बार से निपटने के संभावनाओ की तलाश
नेशनल कोर्ट मैनेजमेंट सिस्टम्स नामक एक योजना जो भारत सरकार के कानून मंत्रालय ने भारत के मुख्य न्यायाधीश की प्रेरणा से बना और उसके आधार पर जारी घोषणा पत्र को देखने से प्रतीत होगा कि न्यायालयों में लंबित वाद के बढ़ते दबाब देश के शीर्ष न्ययालय के लिए कितनी बड़ी चिंता का विषय बना हुआ है जिसके समाधान के लिए उपरोक्त योजना बनायी गयी है.
इस विषय से सम्बंधित विस्तृत जानकारी कानून मंत्रालय के अधिकारिक वेबसाइट पर उपलब्ध है. तत्काल अवलोकनार्थ इसे अनुलग्नक के तौर पर अंग्रेजी भाषा में उधृत किया जा रहा है.
शीर्ष न्यायलय की उपरोक्त चिंता टी एन बी विधि महाविद्यालय, भागलपुर, के लिए भी अगर चिंता नहीं तो चिंतन का विषय तो बनना ही चाहिए, क्योंकि जो समस्या आज विकराल स्वरुप ले चुकी है उसका स्वरुप आने वाले समय में क्या होगा यह सोंच कर भी डर लगता है कि जब आज की वह पीढ़ी जो विधि फैकल्टी में अध्ययन कर रही है उसे न्यायालयों में पहुँच कर उपचार प्राप्त करने या कराने लायक व्यवस्था मिलेगी भी या फिर विरासत में कभी ना सुलझ पाने लायक अनसुलझी गुत्थियाँ ही मिलेगी.
जब शीर्ष अदालत ने उपरोक्त उलझनों का संज्ञान ले लिया है तो क्या विधि संस्थानों और विधिज्ञों का यह दायित्व नहीं बनता है कि इस दिशा में कुछ हिस्सेदारी निभाई जाये?
उल्लेखनीय है कि असल समस्या जिला अदालतों के स्तर पर है जिसे शीर्ष न्यायालय सुलझाना चाहती है पर कानूनी बिंदु पर इस सम्बन्ध में आने वाले अड़चन और किन्तु-परन्तु को विधिज्ञ अनदेखी नहीं कर सकते हैं.
मात्र योजना का गठन योजना की सफलता की कोई गारंटी नहीं हो सकती और वह भी तब जब कि कानून इस सम्बन्ध में खुद अड़चन हो, जैसा कि है.
इस सम्बन्ध में संविधान की अनुछेद २२७ का उल्लेख करना प्रासंगिक होगा जिसके प्रभाव से जिला न्यायालयों का नियंत्रण उच्च न्यायलय में निहित होता है, जब कि उच्चतम न्यायलय का कोई भी प्रशाशनिक नियंत्रण न तो उच्च न्यायलय के उपर होता है और जिला न्यायालयों पर तो बिलकुल ही नहीं होता है. यह अलग विषय है कि उच्चतम न्यायलय द्वारा अधिघोषित कानून या कानून की व्याख्या अकाट्य होती है किन्तु इस संप्रभुता का कोई प्रभाव प्रशाशनिक पक्ष पर नहीं के बराबर होता है. यही कारण है कि उच्चतम न्यायालय की उपरोक्त चिंता आज की परिस्थिति में मात्र एक शुभेच्छा है जिसकी सफलता विधिज्ञ समुदाय के सहभागिता के बिना शायद संभव नहीं है.
इसी सोंच के साथ यह संस्थान एक कार्यशाला आयोजित कर रहा है जिसके समक्ष मुख्य तौर पर यह एजेंडा है कि उन कारणों का पता लगाये कि आखिरकार वे कौन से कारण हैं कि जहाँ एक ओर लंबित वादों का अम्बार नयी ऊंचाईयों का निर्माण कर रहा है वहीँ दूसरी ओर उनके निपटने की कोई ढोस सम्भावना बनती नहीं दिखती है.
तो ऐसे में इस कार्यशाला के समक्ष यह विषय है कि उन कारणों कि पहचान कि जाये किसके फलस्वरूप उपरोक्त विकरालता सुरसा राक्षसी का भी रिकॉर्ड तोड़ रही है और हम सब निरीह बने बैठे हैं. आँखों से ओझल हो रहे न्यायिक उपचार क्या कानूनी प्रावधानों की अनावश्यक जटिलता की उपज है, या फिर कार्य कुशलता के आभाव की , या फिर विपरीत मानसिकता की, या फिर कुछ और जो हम या तो देख नहीं पा रहे हैं या फिर सोंच नहीं पा रहे हैं.
कारण और निवारण इस कार्यशाला की प्रथम और अन्तिम प्राथमिकता है जिसके लिए विधि से सम्बंधित मुख्यधारा में जो भी प्रबुद्ध विधिज्ञ या विधि से किसी भी रूप में सम्बंधित प्रोफेशनल, शिक्षक, विद्यार्थी , इत्यादि हैं उनकी सहभागिता वांछित है.
अनुलग्नक-१.
PROPOSED WORKSHOP
ON
MITIGATION OF THE MENACING BUILD UP OF
ARREARS OF CIVIL CASES.
National Court Management Systems’ (NCMS) for Enhancing Timely Justice.
The following import from the official website of the Ministry of Law&Justice, at the behest of the Apex Court, captioned as the Scheme of ‘National Court Management Systems’ (NCMS) for Enhancing Timely Justice, which is founded on the ‘NCMS Policy & Action Plan’ document released by the CJI on 27.9.2012.
A cursory reading would make the picture clear:-
" India has one of the largest judicial systems in the world – with over 3 crore cases and sanctioned strength of some 18,871 Judges (as on 31.12.2011). The system has expanded rapidly in the last three decades, reflecting India’s social, economic and political development in this period. It is estimated that the number of Judges/Courts expanded six fold while the number of cases expanded by double that number – twelve fold. The judicial system is set to continue to expand significantly over the next three decades, rising, by the most conservative estimate, to at least about 15 crore of cases requiring at least some 75,000 Courts/Judges.
There is an urgent need to make the Judicial System ‘five plus free’ (i.e., free of cases more than five years old). There is an equally urgent need to shorten the average life cycle of all cases – not only time spent within each court, but also total time in the judicial system as a whole, to bring the average to no more than about one year in each court. There is also need to systematically maintain and continuously seek to enhance quality and responsiveness of justice.
To meet all these challenges facing the Judiciary effectively, the Chief Justice of India, after consulting the Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of India, established the National Court Management Systems (NCMS) in May this year and recently released a ‘Policy & Action Plan’ document to implement it. The National Court Management Systems will be under overall control of the Chief Justice of India. It will primarily deal with policy issues. NCMS will include the following six main elements:
(1) A National Framework of Court Excellence (NFCE) that will set measurable performance standards for Indian courts, addressing issues of quality, responsiveness and timeliness;
(2) A system for monitoring and enhancing the performance parameters established in the NFCE on quality, responsiveness and timeliness;
(3) A system of Case Management to enhance user friendliness of the Judicial System;
(4) A National System of Judicial Statistics (NSJS) to provide a common national platform for recording and maintaining judicial statistics from across the country. NSJS should provide real time statistics on cases and courts that will enable systematic analysis of key factors such as quality, timeliness and efficiency of the judicial system across courts, districts/states, types of cases, stages of cases, costs of adjudication, time lines of cases, productivity and efficiency of courts, use of budgets and financial resources. It would enhance transparency and accountability;
(5) A Court Development Planning System that will provide a framework for systematic five year plans for the future development of the Indian judiciary. The planning system will include individual court development plans for all the courts; and
(6) A Human Resource Development Strategy setting standards on selection and training of judges of subordinate courts.
The administrative and technological “backbone” of these systems will be maintained at the Supreme Court and overseen by a Committee consisting of the representatives.
Specific proposals will be developed in each of these areas for consideration and implementation by and through the High Courts.
National Court Management Systems Committee (N.C.M.S.C.):
Specific proposals for the Court Management System as outlined above will be developed by an 18 member National Court Management Systems Committee (N.C.M.S.C.), which, subject to directions of the Chief Justice of India, shall consist of the following:
Chair:
A Jurist/Domain Expert nominated by the Chief Justice of India. He will be paid honorarium and given such facilities as may be decided by the Chief Justice of India for Chairing N.C.M.S.C.
Accordingly, Prof. (Dr.) G. Mohan Gopal, former Director, National Judicial Academy, a Jurist, has been nominated by the CJI to be the Chairperson of National Court Management Systems Committee. Prof. Mohan Gopal will also be Member of the Advisory Committee.
Members:
1. Four Sitting Judges (one from each zone in India) nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
2. Secretary General of the Supreme Court (ex-officio).
3. Joint Secretary and Mission Director (National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms), Department of Justice, Government of India (ex-officio).
4. Registrar Generals of three High Courts nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
5. Director, National Judicial Academy.
6. Two practising Advocates nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
7. An expert Statistician, nominated by the Chief Statistician of India.
8. An expert in management of decision making systems and process re-engineering, nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
9. An expert in Computer Technology relevant to Court Management, nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
10. A representative of a NGO working for improving access to justice and user friendliness of courts, nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
11. Additional Registrar, Information and Statistics, Supreme Court of India (ex-officio) – Member Secretary.
Accordingly, the following were nominated by the CJI as Members of the NCMSC:
(a) Shi Justice D. Murugesan;
(b) Shri Justice A.M. Khanwilkar;
(c) Shri Justice Amitava Roy;
(d) Shri Justice B.D. Ahmed;
(e) Registrar General, High Court of Gujarat;
(f) Registrar General, Calcutta High Court; and
(g) Registrar General, High Court of Karnataka.
The Committee shall be supported by necessary staff and facilities.
· Advisory Committee:
The NCMS Committee is to be advised by an Advisory Committee consisting of two Judges of Supreme Court of India and such other Chief Justices/Judges of High Courts as may be nominated by the Chief Justice of India. The Chair of the NCMS Committee shall be a member of the Advisory Committee. Secretary, Department of Justice, Government of India, shall be Ex-officio Member of Advisory Committee and the Secretary-General of the Supreme Court shall be the convenor of the Advisory Committee.
Accordingly, the following were nominated to be the Members of the Advisory Committee:
(a) Shri Justice Altamas Kabir, currently the Chief Justice of India;
(b) Shri Justice P. Sathasivam, Judge, Supreme Court of India; and
(c) Shri Justice P. C. Tatia, Chief Justice, Jharkhand High Court.
All expenses in connection with the functioning of the NCMS, including salary and allowances, etc., of the Staff, will be met from the sanctioned Budget of the Supreme Court of India.
Before finding an answer, as to how the above spirit would descend down the grass-roots level, it is felt advisable to state that the Apex Court has no direct power of superintendence on the subordinate judiciary. The constitution confers that power on the High Court under Article 227. Pursuant thereto, High Court exercises that power suo motu as well as upon invocation. An application under Article 227 of the constitution is entertainable under High Court's writ jurisdiction. These days this power of superintendence invoked in matters where civil revision is barred under Section 115 CPC. The 2002 amendment in CPC has shrunk the civil revisional jurisdiction of the High Court, hence where ends of justice so requires, the power of superintendence is invoked to seek relief which the unamended CPC earlier provided
This article comes handy in seeking High Court’s intervention in matters where the trial court’s lapses in disposing of cases is brought to High Court’s notice and a direction is sought
Suffice it to say that the power of superintendence is exercised by the High Court in the above said two broad categories, suo motu and when invoked. The former is a routine practice, the latter is not
The High Court maintains an inspection cell .Each District is allotted to one of its judges who conducts periodical inspection of the district court under its allotment
It is this routine inspections in which deadwoods may be identified and pruned
However, the Apex Court’s vision in the above regard does not seem to have descended in the manner expected.
Be that as it may, suffice it to say that there is absolute unanimity amid bench, bar and litigants that the enormity of pendency of cases has attained alarming proportions. Every single addition in the piles of pending cases threaten to emerge as the last straw on the camel's back.
It is this threat which compels the academicians in law accompanied by the prodigies among its students to delve into the intricacies and rigmarole in the legal procedures with intent to finding out the elements responsible for turning the justice delivery system into an apparatus that is proving to be inefficacious, if not counter productive.
With that end in view, the T.N.B.Law College, Bhagalpur , contemplates holding a workshop, soliciting therein the participation of legal experts on the civil side who may as well be called upon to elicit live experiences and opinions from the bench, in that it may not be quite feasible for the members of the bench to gargle it out in the open but in conformity with the bar-bench relationship, the members of the bar may elicit the requisite view points without the members of the bench suffering any delicacies or reservations.
Materially and substantially, the proposed workshop aims at finding out the subsisting constraints in the legal system, if any, that accounts for the ever increasing build up arrears of cases.
Upon identification thereof, the focus of the workshop would be on evolving ways and means within the existing frame work and also within the existing resources, to mitigate the issue, as also to discover whether enlargement of resources would be imperative and indispensible therefor.
BHAGALPUR-812001 (BIHAR)
(A Constituent Unit of T.M.Bhagalpur University)
No. …………………….Dated-
To
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Sub: PROPOSED WORKSHOPON :MITIGATION OF THE MENACING BUILD UP OF
ARREARS OF CIVIL CASES (कार्यशाला -लंबित वादों के अम्बार से निपटने के संभावनाओ की तलाश)
Sir,
This institution takes pleasure in informing that the subject cited workshop is going to be organized wherein participation of enlightened people in the field of law is solicited.
Your standing and experience in the field prompts us to seek your valued participation in the workshop. The enclosure would offer a glimpse into the outlook, context, purview and pursuit of the said contemplated endeavor. The same is intended at opening a window that elicits your valuable and experience-based analysis of the broad reasons that accounts for the ever-increasing pendency of civil cases, be that for whatever reasons, but especially focusing your views on pragmatic steps, if any, which may mitigate the problem within the existing legal frame-work and set up.
Your write up may be used as resource which would form basis for the discussions to be organized at the workshop. The same would target assimilation of fruitful conclusions. Fruitful means fruitful indeed, which, once implemented, may usher the presently over-loaded legal system, into an envisaged legal environment that might promise speedy remedy. Our exploration warrants the use and application of sleek legal tactics that you might suggest with intent to curbing slack state of existing legal ordeals.
Your contribution may kindly be forwarded within a fortnight. Thereafter, an intimation would be sent, as regards the exact date and time of the workshop.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Encl.:- As above.S.K.Pandey, Prof.-incharge.
कार्यशाला
लंबित वादों के अम्बार से निपटने के संभावनाओ की तलाश
नेशनल कोर्ट मैनेजमेंट सिस्टम्स नामक एक योजना जो भारत सरकार के कानून मंत्रालय ने भारत के मुख्य न्यायाधीश की प्रेरणा से बना और उसके आधार पर जारी घोषणा पत्र को देखने से प्रतीत होगा कि न्यायालयों में लंबित वाद के बढ़ते दबाब देश के शीर्ष न्ययालय के लिए कितनी बड़ी चिंता का विषय बना हुआ है जिसके समाधान के लिए उपरोक्त योजना बनायी गयी है.
इस विषय से सम्बंधित विस्तृत जानकारी कानून मंत्रालय के अधिकारिक वेबसाइट पर उपलब्ध है. तत्काल अवलोकनार्थ इसे अनुलग्नक के तौर पर अंग्रेजी भाषा में उधृत किया जा रहा है.
शीर्ष न्यायलय की उपरोक्त चिंता टी एन बी विधि महाविद्यालय, भागलपुर, के लिए भी अगर चिंता नहीं तो चिंतन का विषय तो बनना ही चाहिए, क्योंकि जो समस्या आज विकराल स्वरुप ले चुकी है उसका स्वरुप आने वाले समय में क्या होगा यह सोंच कर भी डर लगता है कि जब आज की वह पीढ़ी जो विधि फैकल्टी में अध्ययन कर रही है उसे न्यायालयों में पहुँच कर उपचार प्राप्त करने या कराने लायक व्यवस्था मिलेगी भी या फिर विरासत में कभी ना सुलझ पाने लायक अनसुलझी गुत्थियाँ ही मिलेगी.
जब शीर्ष अदालत ने उपरोक्त उलझनों का संज्ञान ले लिया है तो क्या विधि संस्थानों और विधिज्ञों का यह दायित्व नहीं बनता है कि इस दिशा में कुछ हिस्सेदारी निभाई जाये?
उल्लेखनीय है कि असल समस्या जिला अदालतों के स्तर पर है जिसे शीर्ष न्यायालय सुलझाना चाहती है पर कानूनी बिंदु पर इस सम्बन्ध में आने वाले अड़चन और किन्तु-परन्तु को विधिज्ञ अनदेखी नहीं कर सकते हैं.
मात्र योजना का गठन योजना की सफलता की कोई गारंटी नहीं हो सकती और वह भी तब जब कि कानून इस सम्बन्ध में खुद अड़चन हो, जैसा कि है.
इस सम्बन्ध में संविधान की अनुछेद २२७ का उल्लेख करना प्रासंगिक होगा जिसके प्रभाव से जिला न्यायालयों का नियंत्रण उच्च न्यायलय में निहित होता है, जब कि उच्चतम न्यायलय का कोई भी प्रशाशनिक नियंत्रण न तो उच्च न्यायलय के उपर होता है और जिला न्यायालयों पर तो बिलकुल ही नहीं होता है. यह अलग विषय है कि उच्चतम न्यायलय द्वारा अधिघोषित कानून या कानून की व्याख्या अकाट्य होती है किन्तु इस संप्रभुता का कोई प्रभाव प्रशाशनिक पक्ष पर नहीं के बराबर होता है. यही कारण है कि उच्चतम न्यायालय की उपरोक्त चिंता आज की परिस्थिति में मात्र एक शुभेच्छा है जिसकी सफलता विधिज्ञ समुदाय के सहभागिता के बिना शायद संभव नहीं है.
इसी सोंच के साथ यह संस्थान एक कार्यशाला आयोजित कर रहा है जिसके समक्ष मुख्य तौर पर यह एजेंडा है कि उन कारणों का पता लगाये कि आखिरकार वे कौन से कारण हैं कि जहाँ एक ओर लंबित वादों का अम्बार नयी ऊंचाईयों का निर्माण कर रहा है वहीँ दूसरी ओर उनके निपटने की कोई ढोस सम्भावना बनती नहीं दिखती है.
तो ऐसे में इस कार्यशाला के समक्ष यह विषय है कि उन कारणों कि पहचान कि जाये किसके फलस्वरूप उपरोक्त विकरालता सुरसा राक्षसी का भी रिकॉर्ड तोड़ रही है और हम सब निरीह बने बैठे हैं. आँखों से ओझल हो रहे न्यायिक उपचार क्या कानूनी प्रावधानों की अनावश्यक जटिलता की उपज है, या फिर कार्य कुशलता के आभाव की , या फिर विपरीत मानसिकता की, या फिर कुछ और जो हम या तो देख नहीं पा रहे हैं या फिर सोंच नहीं पा रहे हैं.
कारण और निवारण इस कार्यशाला की प्रथम और अन्तिम प्राथमिकता है जिसके लिए विधि से सम्बंधित मुख्यधारा में जो भी प्रबुद्ध विधिज्ञ या विधि से किसी भी रूप में सम्बंधित प्रोफेशनल, शिक्षक, विद्यार्थी , इत्यादि हैं उनकी सहभागिता वांछित है.
अनुलग्नक-१.
PROPOSED WORKSHOP
ON
MITIGATION OF THE MENACING BUILD UP OF
ARREARS OF CIVIL CASES.
National Court Management Systems’ (NCMS) for Enhancing Timely Justice.
The following import from the official website of the Ministry of Law&Justice, at the behest of the Apex Court, captioned as the Scheme of ‘National Court Management Systems’ (NCMS) for Enhancing Timely Justice, which is founded on the ‘NCMS Policy & Action Plan’ document released by the CJI on 27.9.2012.
A cursory reading would make the picture clear:-
" India has one of the largest judicial systems in the world – with over 3 crore cases and sanctioned strength of some 18,871 Judges (as on 31.12.2011). The system has expanded rapidly in the last three decades, reflecting India’s social, economic and political development in this period. It is estimated that the number of Judges/Courts expanded six fold while the number of cases expanded by double that number – twelve fold. The judicial system is set to continue to expand significantly over the next three decades, rising, by the most conservative estimate, to at least about 15 crore of cases requiring at least some 75,000 Courts/Judges.
There is an urgent need to make the Judicial System ‘five plus free’ (i.e., free of cases more than five years old). There is an equally urgent need to shorten the average life cycle of all cases – not only time spent within each court, but also total time in the judicial system as a whole, to bring the average to no more than about one year in each court. There is also need to systematically maintain and continuously seek to enhance quality and responsiveness of justice.
To meet all these challenges facing the Judiciary effectively, the Chief Justice of India, after consulting the Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of India, established the National Court Management Systems (NCMS) in May this year and recently released a ‘Policy & Action Plan’ document to implement it. The National Court Management Systems will be under overall control of the Chief Justice of India. It will primarily deal with policy issues. NCMS will include the following six main elements:
(1) A National Framework of Court Excellence (NFCE) that will set measurable performance standards for Indian courts, addressing issues of quality, responsiveness and timeliness;
(2) A system for monitoring and enhancing the performance parameters established in the NFCE on quality, responsiveness and timeliness;
(3) A system of Case Management to enhance user friendliness of the Judicial System;
(4) A National System of Judicial Statistics (NSJS) to provide a common national platform for recording and maintaining judicial statistics from across the country. NSJS should provide real time statistics on cases and courts that will enable systematic analysis of key factors such as quality, timeliness and efficiency of the judicial system across courts, districts/states, types of cases, stages of cases, costs of adjudication, time lines of cases, productivity and efficiency of courts, use of budgets and financial resources. It would enhance transparency and accountability;
(5) A Court Development Planning System that will provide a framework for systematic five year plans for the future development of the Indian judiciary. The planning system will include individual court development plans for all the courts; and
(6) A Human Resource Development Strategy setting standards on selection and training of judges of subordinate courts.
The administrative and technological “backbone” of these systems will be maintained at the Supreme Court and overseen by a Committee consisting of the representatives.
Specific proposals will be developed in each of these areas for consideration and implementation by and through the High Courts.
National Court Management Systems Committee (N.C.M.S.C.):
Specific proposals for the Court Management System as outlined above will be developed by an 18 member National Court Management Systems Committee (N.C.M.S.C.), which, subject to directions of the Chief Justice of India, shall consist of the following:
Chair:
A Jurist/Domain Expert nominated by the Chief Justice of India. He will be paid honorarium and given such facilities as may be decided by the Chief Justice of India for Chairing N.C.M.S.C.
Accordingly, Prof. (Dr.) G. Mohan Gopal, former Director, National Judicial Academy, a Jurist, has been nominated by the CJI to be the Chairperson of National Court Management Systems Committee. Prof. Mohan Gopal will also be Member of the Advisory Committee.
Members:
1. Four Sitting Judges (one from each zone in India) nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
2. Secretary General of the Supreme Court (ex-officio).
3. Joint Secretary and Mission Director (National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms), Department of Justice, Government of India (ex-officio).
4. Registrar Generals of three High Courts nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
5. Director, National Judicial Academy.
6. Two practising Advocates nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
7. An expert Statistician, nominated by the Chief Statistician of India.
8. An expert in management of decision making systems and process re-engineering, nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
9. An expert in Computer Technology relevant to Court Management, nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
10. A representative of a NGO working for improving access to justice and user friendliness of courts, nominated by the Chief Justice of India.
11. Additional Registrar, Information and Statistics, Supreme Court of India (ex-officio) – Member Secretary.
Accordingly, the following were nominated by the CJI as Members of the NCMSC:
(a) Shi Justice D. Murugesan;
(b) Shri Justice A.M. Khanwilkar;
(c) Shri Justice Amitava Roy;
(d) Shri Justice B.D. Ahmed;
(e) Registrar General, High Court of Gujarat;
(f) Registrar General, Calcutta High Court; and
(g) Registrar General, High Court of Karnataka.
The Committee shall be supported by necessary staff and facilities.
· Advisory Committee:
The NCMS Committee is to be advised by an Advisory Committee consisting of two Judges of Supreme Court of India and such other Chief Justices/Judges of High Courts as may be nominated by the Chief Justice of India. The Chair of the NCMS Committee shall be a member of the Advisory Committee. Secretary, Department of Justice, Government of India, shall be Ex-officio Member of Advisory Committee and the Secretary-General of the Supreme Court shall be the convenor of the Advisory Committee.
Accordingly, the following were nominated to be the Members of the Advisory Committee:
(a) Shri Justice Altamas Kabir, currently the Chief Justice of India;
(b) Shri Justice P. Sathasivam, Judge, Supreme Court of India; and
(c) Shri Justice P. C. Tatia, Chief Justice, Jharkhand High Court.
All expenses in connection with the functioning of the NCMS, including salary and allowances, etc., of the Staff, will be met from the sanctioned Budget of the Supreme Court of India.
Before finding an answer, as to how the above spirit would descend down the grass-roots level, it is felt advisable to state that the Apex Court has no direct power of superintendence on the subordinate judiciary. The constitution confers that power on the High Court under Article 227. Pursuant thereto, High Court exercises that power suo motu as well as upon invocation. An application under Article 227 of the constitution is entertainable under High Court's writ jurisdiction. These days this power of superintendence invoked in matters where civil revision is barred under Section 115 CPC. The 2002 amendment in CPC has shrunk the civil revisional jurisdiction of the High Court, hence where ends of justice so requires, the power of superintendence is invoked to seek relief which the unamended CPC earlier provided
This article comes handy in seeking High Court’s intervention in matters where the trial court’s lapses in disposing of cases is brought to High Court’s notice and a direction is sought
Suffice it to say that the power of superintendence is exercised by the High Court in the above said two broad categories, suo motu and when invoked. The former is a routine practice, the latter is not
The High Court maintains an inspection cell .Each District is allotted to one of its judges who conducts periodical inspection of the district court under its allotment
It is this routine inspections in which deadwoods may be identified and pruned
However, the Apex Court’s vision in the above regard does not seem to have descended in the manner expected.
Be that as it may, suffice it to say that there is absolute unanimity amid bench, bar and litigants that the enormity of pendency of cases has attained alarming proportions. Every single addition in the piles of pending cases threaten to emerge as the last straw on the camel's back.
It is this threat which compels the academicians in law accompanied by the prodigies among its students to delve into the intricacies and rigmarole in the legal procedures with intent to finding out the elements responsible for turning the justice delivery system into an apparatus that is proving to be inefficacious, if not counter productive.
With that end in view, the T.N.B.Law College, Bhagalpur , contemplates holding a workshop, soliciting therein the participation of legal experts on the civil side who may as well be called upon to elicit live experiences and opinions from the bench, in that it may not be quite feasible for the members of the bench to gargle it out in the open but in conformity with the bar-bench relationship, the members of the bar may elicit the requisite view points without the members of the bench suffering any delicacies or reservations.
Materially and substantially, the proposed workshop aims at finding out the subsisting constraints in the legal system, if any, that accounts for the ever increasing build up arrears of cases.
Upon identification thereof, the focus of the workshop would be on evolving ways and means within the existing frame work and also within the existing resources, to mitigate the issue, as also to discover whether enlargement of resources would be imperative and indispensible therefor.
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