Contents
Justice, Access, and the Nation’s Approaches
1. A Sense of Justice: Our Role in Creating and Improving Perceptions
2. Paths to Justice: Surveying Judicial and Non-judicial Dispute Resolution in India
3. Saddharma Nyaya Peetha: The Role of Taralabalu Math in Resolving Disputes
Shivamurthy Shivacharya Mahaswamiji
4. The Mediation Gap: Where India Stands and How Far It Must Go
5. Manpower Malady: Managing Legal Aid Institutions
6. Bail and Incarceration: The State of Undertrial Prisoners in India
7. Gandhi’s Jurisconscience: Evolution of His Ideas of Justice
8. Deconstructing Delay: Analyses of Data from High Courts and Subordinate Courts
9. Maximising Judicial Time: Measures to Combat Delay and Pendency in Subordinate Courts
Probing Pendency and Performance of Courts
10. Promise to Pay: An Analysis of Cheque Dishonour Cases
11. Performance Indicators: Working of Magistrates’ Courts in India
12. Diversification and Efficiency: A Case Study of the Karnataka Appellate Tribunal
13. Government Litigation: A Study of Tax Appeals in Karnataka and Gujarat
14. California’s Courts: Judicial Administration and Case Flow Management
15. One Dispute, Many Cases: Overcoming the Numbers Game in Litigation
16. Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Prosecutor’s Views on the Criminal Justice System
17. Trusting the Police: Challenges of Criminal Investigation and Trials in India
18. Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Appraisal of Incumbency of Supreme Court Judges
19. Judicial Budgets: From Financial Outlays to Time-bound Outcomes
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