Steps to ensure speedy disposal of cases: Moily

Steps to ensure speedy disposal of cases: Moily

More fast track courts would be set up to ensure that no case was pending for more than one year, Union Minister for Law and Justice Veerappa Moily has said.

The Centre had envisaged a national litigation policy to reduce the pendency of cases in various courts, Moily said delivering the 19th Sree Chithira Thiruval Memorial Lecture on 'Globalisation and Legal Reforms' organised by the Sree Chithira Thirunal Samskara Samithi in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.

Setting up of commercial benches in High Courts had been planned to deal with cases involving more than Rs 5 crore.This would help dispose of such cases within a year, he said.

Referring to the demand by Kerala for a High Court bench here, Moily said the state should first set up infrastructure for the bench.

"If the state government takes initiative, high court bench in Thiruvananthapuram will become a reality," he added.

Centre also planned to improve the quality of law education, he said, adding, it has decided to set up 14 new law school varsities, five regional research and training institutes for the faculty of law schools.