Joint conference of Chief Ministers of states and Chief Justices of High Courts

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, T.S.Thakur, and D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Union Law and Justice Minister. will also be present at the inauguration.

 

This conference is held periodically to address pressing issues relating to the administration of justice in the country. 

 

Chief Ministers of all the states and Chief Justices of all the High Courts have been invited to the Conference. 

 

According to the Ministry of Law & Justice, the joint conference is an occasion for the executive and the judiciary to reaffirm their resolve to support a speedy, efficient and quality justice delivery in the country, and to discuss steps required to surmount the various challenges facing the justice system, such as inordinate delays in disposal of cases in courts, facilitating access to speedy resolution of commercial disputes by economic operators, making the justice system user friendly and affordable to all and improving the quality of legal aid services in the country. 

 

The ministry said a number of positive steps have been taken in the recent past to meet these challenges. 

 

The increased investment in infrastructure has resulted in India having more court halls in aggregate than functional courts. 

 

The e-Courts Mission Mode Project has enabled litigants and lawyers to access their case data and cause lists online and facilitated monitoring of courts and cases by the judiciary. 

 

The new legislation on setting up commercial courts and changes in the legislation on arbitration and negotiable instruments have brought the efforts to improve the ease of doing business into sharp focus for both the judiciary and the executive to act in unison. 

 

A comprehensive agenda on these issues has been drawn up for the Conference by the Government in consultation with the judiciary.