Govts biggest litigants, should fight cases when necessary: Law Commission

The government should direct state authorities to set up fast track courts, says the Law Commission.

The Law Commission of India in its report (230th) on ‘Reforms in the Judiciary’, submitted to the government in August 2009, made some pertinent observations on improving the efficiency of the judiciary.

“Judicial reform, as is being looked at, is essential for the country’s overall development, not just economic; in India, the problem is more human than economic,” stated the report, authored by Justice A R Lakshmanan, chairman, Law Commission of India.

While judicial accountability is connected to the larger area of judicial reforms, the report said, it went on to caution that just increasing the number of courts and judges will