INTRODUCTION: Mediation is a centuries-old method of resolving conflicts that have been used since the Vedic period. It is low-cost, and it keeps things, particularly family matters, confidential between three parties, two parties, and the mediator. Furthermore, the solution is not imposed on any party; it is a compromise reached by both parties. As a…
Lok Adalat is considered as an alternative dispute redressal mechanism. It is a forum where cases pending in the court of law or at pre-litigation stage are settled. Lok Adalat acknowledged as statutory bodies under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. The decisions of Lok Adalat bind the parties and no appeal against such an…
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provides an alternative to the conventional methods of resolving disputes. It offers to solve all types of matters including commercial, civil, family and industrial where people are not able to start any type of negotiation and reach a settlement. Generally, ADR uses an impartial third party who helps the parties to…
Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour, experience and mental processes. Behaviour includes all of our outward or overt actions and reactions, such as talking, facial expressions and movement. Mental processes refer to all the internal, covert actions of our minds, such as thinking, feeling and remembering. To study behaviour and mental processes in both…
Spiritual people look very similar to the common people and hence difficult to be identified. They are usually not dressed in white, blue or ochre dress. They don’t necessarily keep beard or shave their heads. They don’t live in forest, caves or in Himalayas. They live around you but you fail to identify them. You…
Indu Malhotra is a retired judge and senior counsel of the Supreme Court of India. She was the second woman to be designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court. She also authored the third edition of The Law and Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation (2014). The Apex court of India in a majority of…
Any partnership or organization is bound to have disagreements. Disputes can be settled by litigation (i.e., in a court of law) or through an ADR mechanism (alternative dispute resolution). ADR refers to processes and techniques that allow disputing parties to reach an agreement without resorting to litigation. It is a collective term for the various…
The INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM, ruining aspirations, dreams, careers and lives since forever. On an average an Indian person spends about 16-18 years in school and another 3-5 years in college, if not more thinking that education will put him on the right path of life and rightly so. What are the expectations? He/she will know…
Astrology is a pseudoscience that causes divine data about human issues and earthbound occasions by examining the developments and relative places of heavenly items. astrologer has been dated to at any rate the second thousand years BCE, and has its underlying foundations in calendrical frameworks used to foresee occasional movements and to decipher heavenly cycles…
“Interminable, time consuming, complex and expensive Court procedures impelled jurists to search for an alternative Forum, less formal, more effective and speedy for resolution of disputes, avoiding procedural claptrap and this led them to Arbitration Act, 1940. However, the way in which the proceedings under the Act are conducted and without exception challenged in Courts,…
