ADALATH

The word Lok Adalat, if freely translated means a “people’s court”. However, Lok Adalat is not a court of law (as existing anywhere in India) in its truest and accepted norm a connotation. It is defined “as a forum where voluntary effort aimed at bringing about settlement of disputes between the parties is made through conciliatory and pervasive efforts. The object of establishing Lok Adalats is to make access to justice more human, simple and effective. Justice P.N. Bhagwati described it as a “legal technology of peaceful transformation of society so as to ensure equal-cum-social justice.” Resolving disputes through Lok Adalat not only minimizes litigation expenditure, it saves valuable time of the parties appropriately to the satisfaction of both the parties.