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Judicial backlogs can become history

The Law Commission analysis assumed that backlog would be cleared up in three years

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Shailesh Gandhi
Everyone agrees that delays in justice delivery give rise to a large number of problems. I decided to try and evaluate how many extra judges would be required to start reducing judicial backlogs. The 20th Law Commission in its report submitted in July 2014 concluded that the rate of disposal per judge per year is the right method for evaluating this. In simple terms it assumes that if 10 judges are disposing 10,000 cases, 12 judges will dispose 12,000 cases. This may not be precise, but it is broadly correct. 

I took the data reported by the Law Commission in
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