Delhi HC starts Mediation and Conciliation centre

New Delhi, May 29 (UNI) The Delhi High Court today formally started a mediation and conciliation centre on its premises.

Inaugurating the function, Supreme Court judge Markandeya Katju, said that he had proposed National Institute of Mediation and Conciliation while speaking to Chief Justice of India a few days ago.

''It will usher in a mediation movement,'' he said hoping that the institute could be taken to other corners of the country.

The growing trend is to prefer mediation to litigation simply because of time factor, he said.

Besides, it is one thing to be a good judge or good lawyer and another to become a good mediator, justice Katju said, adding that the bar and the judges complement each other in the process.

The judicial administration is over burdened with litigations. New economic policies and industrialisation making rapid progresses, the litigations can but increase, leaving us with little breathing space, Justice Manmohan Sarin observed.

Only mediation and conciliation can help us check the plethora of the cases, he said.

High Court acting Chief Justice Vijendra Jain also spoke on the occasion.

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