It seems the Vice-President of India is in favour of establishing regional benches of the Supreme Court in different parts of India. Venkaiah Naidu has endorsed the recommendation of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice to establish a regional bench in Chennai on a trial basis. The reason highlighted by him is to ensure that people have better access to courts. It’s a rather common theoretical proposition that people who stay farther from the court would have lesser access to it. Data shows that this problem of access is not merely theoretical but very real.
An empirical analysis of the Supreme Court dockets by Nick Robinson reveals the unfair advantages enjoyed by the litigants from the states near New Delhi and the wealthier states in accessing the Supreme Court. For example, in 2011, 29.2 percent of appeals which were filed in the Supreme Court originated from Punjab and Haryana and Delhi. This trend is despite the fact that other high courts such as Bombay and Allahabad have a much higher annual disposal rate than Punjab and Haryana and Delhi.
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It seems the Vice-President of India is in favour of establishing regional benches of the Supreme Court in different parts of India. Venkaiah Naidu has endorsed the recommendation of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice to establish a regional bench in Chennai on a trial basis. The reason highlighted by him is to ensure that people have better access to courts. It’s a rather common theoretical proposition that people who stay farther from the court would have lesser access to it. Data shows that this problem of access is not merely theoretical but very real. An empirical analysis of the Supreme Court dockets by Nick Robinson reveals the unfair advantages enjoyed by the litigants from the states near New Delhi and the wealthier states in accessing the Supreme Court. For example, in 2011, 29.2 percent of appeals which were filed in the Supreme Court originated from Punjab and Haryana and Delhi. This trend is despite the fact that other high courts such as Bombay and Allahabad have a much higher annual disposal rate than Punjab and Haryana and Delhi.
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