WHY DO WE NEED THE ADR MECHANISM?

“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,…

Online Classes

My online learning experience is totally different than the physical classroom. No doubts online classes are an honest method of teaching. But, I prefer to be in a physical classroom than a web learning environment. As soon as lockdown started in our country, the government had directed that in the lockdown, the teachers should teach…

Lok Adalats

NALSA along with other Legal Services Institutions conducts Lok Adalats. Lok Adalat is one of the alternative dispute redressal mechanisms, it is a forum where disputes/cases pending in the court of law or at pre-litigation stage are settled/ compromised amicably. Lok Adalats have been given statutory status under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. Under…

MEDIATION AS AN ALTERNATE MECHANISM FOR CONSUMER DISPUTE SETTLEMENT UNDER CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 2019.

There have been lately regular complains against the merchants regarding the quality, quantity, purity, concentration and price of a product or service. The reason is simple- competition. This leads to the consumers suffering from various problems and sometimes being fooled as most of the consumers in today’s time use the online facility to buy products…