"In order to provide speedy and quality justice accessible to the ordinary citizens, there is urgent need to reform our judicial system," Mukherjee said here.
He was in the city to deliver a lecture at a seminar organised by the Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, MIzoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
"An effective justice delivery system requires that justice should not only be delivered on time, but should also be easily accessible to people, particularly people from vulnerable sections of society," Mukherjee said.
"The process of reform must begin with an assessment of the country's needs that the legal profession seeks to fulfill, namely the requirements across various levels of the judiciary, gaps in the criminal justice system, specific areas within the law which will require an increased number of practitioners in the near future etc," the President said.
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As part of judicial reforms, the lawyer community, which has often been ignored, should also be considered, he added.
"Legal education and continuing professional development must create a socially sensitive lawyer of conscience, for whom justice delayed is not an opportunity but a blemish on one's professional persona and a failure of the system of which one is an integral part."