Judicial Reform From The Advocate’s Perspectives

Judicial reform refers to the process of improving the efficiency, transparency, and fairness of a country's judicial system. The objective of judicial reform is to ensure that the judicial system functions efficiently and effectively, to provide justice for all individuals in a timely manner, and to strengthen the rule of law. The Supreme Court of India is the apex court in the Indian judicial system, and Advocate is an important stakeholder in it. The role of an advocate is pivotal in access to justice and justice delivery. However, the paper pointed out that litigating advocates at the Supreme Court of India currently facing several kinds of difficulties including but not limited to registry problems, time limit for an argument, management of cases, language barrier, accessibility and adaptability to the technology, poor drafting, etc. Also, it has been observed by the advocates that the present judicial system is overburdened, justice become a costly affair, Indianisation of the justice system, delay, pendency, infrastructure issue, lack of transparency, corruption, issue of judicial appointment, judicial vacancy, decentralization of SC, judicial attitude, etc. In this context, the author by doing the empirical study i.e., after interviewing litigating advocates at the Supreme Court of India critically analyses the various problems and suggests solutions to them from the advocate's perspectives. It is a well-known fact that bar and bench relations directly affect the justice rate. And, to prevent injustices it is quintessential to understand and address their problems. So judicial reform from the advocate's perspective leads to maximizing the justice rate. Then, fair, accessible, and effective judicial system is no more an illusion.