VP Inaugurates New Campus of Gujarat National Law University

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Gandhinagar (ABC Live) The Vice President of India Mr. M. Hamid Ansari has said that our progress on achieving the Constitutional promise of securing to citizens justice, social, economic and political, especially to the poor and disadvantaged, leaves much to be desired.

 In many instances, it is the State that is the biggest and enduring litigator, forcing citizens and businesses to sustain substantive and notional losses as cases drag on in the labyrinthine justice delivery system.

Addressing after inaugurating the “New campus of Gujrat National Law University” at Gandhinagar, Gujrat today, he has said that the certainty of long gestation for resolution coupled with heavy costs to sustain the legal process has given large corporate and business entities added incentives to threaten or institute legal proceedings on civil matters.

 It is usually the individual citizen and the poor and marginalised among them, who bear the brunt of inadequate or non-existent Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms and extended judicial processes.

Mr. Ansari has said that barring fundamental rights whose violation can be challenged through a writ petition, legal rights, especially civil legal rights bear the brunt of judicial delays. While the economically better off have more staying power and are able to hire and deploy superior legal resources and knowledge to defend their economic interests and property, the poor are pushed into further penury to defend their meagre possessions and holdings against legal challenges.

 In the Indian context, defending legal and statutory rights that are non-fundamental, is time consuming and expensive and works against the poor.