Considering the huge population of the country and the low judge-litigant public ratio, there is a need for efficiently pursuing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) along with adjudicatory mechanism to reduce the pendency of cases in Indian courts, Judge of High Court of Karnataka, Dharwad, Vijaykumar Patil has said.
He was inaugurating the KLE Law Academy’s First National Level Negotiation Competition organised by KLE Society’s G.K. Law College in Hubballi on Friday. Students from 30 colleges from across India, including Goa, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, are participating in the three-day event.
Elaborating on the need for alternative dispute resolution, Mr. Patil pointed out that while the judge-litigant ratio is 12 to one million in India, it was 118 to one million in the U.S. So, along with the adjudicatory mechanism, ADR has become an important tool to resolve disputes.
