Hyderabad: Justice Madan B. Lokur of the Supreme Court on Saturday said that the judicial delivery system had to be revamped to provide affordable justice expeditiously to the poor.
He was speaking at a conference, ‘Emerging challenges before Indian judiciary’, that was organised by the Association of Retired Judges of Supreme Court and High Courts of India, in association with state government.
Justice Lokur said: “Unfortunately we have not been able to do much in the matter of expeditious judicial delivery, and pendency (of cases) in the Supreme Court and High Courts is piling up every day. As of today 65,000 cases are pending with the Supreme Court. It is time we take the help of management experts.”
Later Justice Lokur inaugurated the mediation and arbitration centre on the High Court premises and delivered the Raja and Rani Venugopal Pillai memorial lecture on the need to have an independent judiciary.
Pointing out that the government is the biggest litigant in almost all courts, he said the vision and ideas of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the prime architect of the Indian Constitution, to keep the judiciary independent from the government had stood the test of the time.
Referring the recent decision of the Supreme Court to quash the National Judicial Appointments Commission, Justice Lokur said only those judges who adhere to the core values of the Constitution could afford to be independent in their approach. He urged the advocates to support the as it would strengthen the judiciary as an institution to serve the people with speedier justice.
Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice R Subhash Reddy of the Hyderabad High Court thanked Justice Lokur for the mediation initiative he had taken during his days as Chief Justice of the AP High Court.
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