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Bengaluru, Sep 18 (PTI) Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Saturday said Indianisation of the country"s legal system is the need of the hour and it is crucial to make the justice delivery system more accessible and effective.
He said Courts need to be litigant-centric, and the simplification of justice delivery should be the pressing concern.
"Very often our justice delivery poses many barriers for the common people.
The working and the style of courts do not sit well with the complexities of India.
Our systems, practice, rules being colonial in origin, it may not be best suited to the needs of the Indian population," Justice Ramana said.
Speaking at an event organised here to pay tributes to late Supreme Court judge Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar, he said the need of the hour is the "Indianisation of our legal system." "When I say Indianisation, I mean the need to adapt to the practical realities of our society and to localise our justice delivery system.For example, parties from a rural place fighting a family dispute are usually made to feel out of place in the court; they do not understand arguments or pleadings which are mostly in English, a language alien to them," he added.