In many developing countries, judicial hearings are at district
head quarters or at capital cities. People from remote places suffer
because of the delay in judicial hearing. Each hearing is accompanied
with the problem of reaching courts which are at far of locations, they
wait years together, just to get a legal hearing, time passes away
waiting, some times in jails, many times in controversies creating lot
of delay in taking right decision. Courts cannot be blamed for the
situation as the cases get piled up to a situation where resolving all
the issues quickly is impossible.
Large number of pending cases
are of minor motor vehicle, stealing, insult, slapping etc. It is a
known fact that, there is a shortage of judicial staff. It is to panic
that people's faith is decreasing drastically towards the sluggish legal
proceedings, each hearing is mere test of patience, not a solution for
resolving their disputes. A new ad-hoc and innovative method of clearing
up the accumulated cases at the courts is need.
Setting up trial
and mobile courts at accessible places and connecting to senior judges
from the district or state level courts through video conferencing will
solve the problem of lack of judges.
Arranging a public hearing
where each side will present their evidence to support their version of
facts and legal arguments to support them. The Judges can be connected
to the hearings to resolve the issues staying at the court or at their
residence. Through the technology like video conferencing the Judge can
connect to next village one after the other as their is no traveling and
he/she can give his verdict to many cases at an amazing speed in turn
contributes to the clearing off the accumulated cases.
Many of the court cases can be resolved by trial method as:
1.
In a criminal case, a prosecutor, in a trial method may offer the
defendant to accept guilt to avoid more severe sentence if their is a
chance of proving to be guilty in a real court. This is called plea
bargaining.
2. In a civil case, most of the people want to solve
the problem by compromise, as there is a fear of losing to the other
side, as winning in trial court, moving further to a real court may not
be supported. This is called 'Stipulation'. Connecting to a senior
lawyer on line through video conferencing
to act as a Judge for the compromise on legal terms, will work out in
resolving minor disputes and reducing the strain of stepping the court
steps.
Aiming at resolving the disputes, it can be done through
discussing the issues in presence of a lawyer who can clarify legal
issues involved and help to understand the constrains they are going to
face, along with the kind of decisions they need to make, after the
legal suit starts at a real court. A settlement doesn't really mean any
one party is right or wrong, its a mere adjustments which both parties
agree to make to live in harmony. A settlement need not resolve the
whole problem, but both parties partially resolve the issue to a certain
extent and both parties explicitly understand the legal issues
interwoven with the dispute.
Finally to sum up, on line
conferencing using Video conferencing solves considerable number of
cases through the same staff. When implemented in courts it works
wonders in bringing down the mountain of cases to a manageable size.
Dealing simple cases through online conferencing helps the tribal and
remote villages immensely.
I am Shelly Desuza, eminent in writing articles enriched with
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working as a Senior SEO and Web designer with Peoplelink Corporate
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