Protracted litigations erode public faith in legal system: SC

NEW DELHI: Observing that people
were losing assurance in the legal system owed to drawn-out litigations, the
Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it was clip lawyers, particularly the seniors
restricted themselves to brief statements in the court. Any attempt
by lawyers, particularly the seniors, to prosecute in drawn-out and time-consuming
arguments would only additional gnaw the people's assurance in the legal system,
a bench of Justices Degree Centigrade Kelvin Thakker and Markandeya Katju observed. "We
are all retainers of the public allow us not blow the cherished clip of this court. Already people are screaming that their lawsuits are dragging on endlessly for
years," the bench observed while asking a senior advocate to cut down his
argument in a lawsuit related to an industrial dispute. The vertex court
said that it have already passed instruction manual that seniors should be very brief
in their statements as that would salvage considerable clip of the tribunals and the
litigant public. The bench also deplored the inclination of some
advocates seeking permission to retreat their requests during the pendency of
a case, which the vertex tribunal felt was an evident effort to mistreat the process
of law. "We are coming across cases when some advocators after
noting that there are some harmful observations plead for withdrawing the
petition. They then register another request after the roll (judges) is changed
so that the substance is posted before a convenient bench," the vertex court
observed. Such tactics should not be followed by advocates, the
Bench said. The vertex tribunal passed the observations while hearing a
petition filed by the Sarva Shramik Sanghatana, Mumbai relating to an industrial
dispute.