Notes
Performance of Lok Adalats
- helped fulfilling objectives under Article 39A
- successful in disposing large number of petty cases
- 2016-2020: almost 52L cases disposed
- State Legal Services Authority have been regularly organizing Lok Adalats to relieve burden on regular courts
- SC alto taken initiative of National Lok Adalats on specific days in a year to dispose large number of cases
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Limitations
- target to set up 5K GN, but only few hundred set up till now
- lack of financial assistance from Centre to States
- most states already facing shortage of judicial officers, as a result, not enough personnel can be deployed in GN
Lok Adalat
- set up by centre, state or district auth from time to time where cases petty in nature
- both civil & criminal
- PNJ
- final and binding judgement
- competent only for offences of compounding in nature
- set up on periodic basis to resolve cases in large numbers
Permanent Adalat
- The Permanent Adalats were added under Section 22 B of The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
- Supposed to take up cases related to Electricity bill disputes, etc.
- They are statutory bodies.
- To set up Permanent Adalats, the Legal Services Authority Act was amended in 2002.