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Mediation has present been accorded statutory designation and judges play a important relation successful identifying cases that tin beryllium resolved done the process, High Court Judge R. Nataraj, who is besides and Administrative Judge for Ballari district, said connected Sunday.
Inaugurating a one-day refresher grooming store connected mediation for judges and referral judges of Ballari, Vijayanagara and Koppal districts done virtual mode, Mr. Nataraj said that judges indispensable find which disputes are suitable for mediation and facilitate amicable colony betwixt parties.
The store was organised jointly by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority, the Karnataka Mediation Centre and the District Legal Services Authorities of Ballari, Vijayanagara and Koppal astatine the District Court Complex successful Ballari.
Mr. Nataraj said that mediation and conciliation are not caller concepts successful India, wherever disputes person traditionally been resolved done dialog and communal understanding.
From resolving household disagreements to settling colony disputes, elders and assemblage leaders person agelong played the relation of mediators, helium noted.
“Mediation not lone resolves disputes but besides restores strained relationships. It reduces hostility betwixt parties and helps them unrecorded successful bid and harmony,” helium said.
Extending his greetings connected International Yoga Day and Father’s Day, Mr. Nataraj wished the participants occurrence successful the grooming programme.
Addressing the gathering arsenic main impermanent done virtual mode, High Court Judge C.M. Poonacha, who is besides Administrative Judge for Koppal district, said that alternate quality solution mechanisms, peculiarly mediation, person go indispensable for reducing the mounting load connected courts portion preserving relationships betwixt litigating parties.
“Mediation is nary longer simply an option, it is present a statutory mandate. With courts facing an tremendous backlog of cases, judges tin importantly trim pendency by referring suitable matters for mediation,” helium said.
Mr. Poonacha urged judicial officers to determination beyond their accepted relation of adjudication and proactively promote parties to opt for mediation astatine the earliest signifier of litigation.
Such efforts volition assistance beforehand societal harmony and fortify nationalist assurance successful the justness transportation system, helium added.
Brinda Nandakumar and Jo Joseph, trainers from the Karnataka Mediation Centre, Bengaluru, served arsenic assets persons and conducted method sessions connected assorted aspects of mediation.
Principal District and Sessions Judge and Chairman of the Koppal District Legal Services Authority C. Chandrashekar, Principal District and Sessions Judge and Chairman of the Vijayanagara District Legal Services Authority K.M. Rajashekhar, Principal District and Sessions Judge and Chairman of the Ballari District Legal Services Authority Siddalinga Prabhu, judges from assorted courts successful the 3 districts and secretaries of the respective District Legal Services Authorities were among those present.
