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HYDERABAD:Senior advocate and noted social activist Prashant Bhushan has called upon the advocate community to fight for a legal system that is competent, responsive and free from corruption here Saturday.
Only a massive people’s movement can bring in major changes in the judicial system, he said addressing the legal fraternity at a seminar on judicial reforms in Hyderabad.
“The only way left before the society to make judiciary relevant and accessible to all is to take it to the their door steps. By doing that we will be able to avoid the huge backlogs and bring faith into the minds of common people who are ultimate consumers of justice and this will help the whole legal fraternity and the cause of justice,” he observed.
“If we do not do that now then soon there will be chaos and everyone including lawyers would suffer,” Prashant Bhushan opined.
He observed that only a mass movement can bring in major changes in the judicial system, and urged the legal fraternity to start working with people to ignite passion in them for a cleaner and responsive judiciary.
Stating that Gram Nyayalayas Act was brought in with this purpose, Bhushan said this will help to dispose of cases quickly.
“A competent judge can interact with litigants and settle disputes in a quick way. Persons with reasonable intelligence, sound commonsense and honesty can be straight away appointed judges and they can be imparted one year training through judicial academies. Knowledge of law is a continuous learning process. Laying more stress on a person’s understanding of law before taking them as judges is of no use.”
Stressing the need for a credible national judicial appointments commission, Prasanth Bhushan said that this will help to select good persons as judges.
A national judicial service to select competent judges for the subordinate judiciary and a judicial complaints commission to deal with corruption in judiciary is the need of the hour, the senior advocate asserted.
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