Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
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In the legendary interminable case of “Jarndyce Vs Jarndyce” in Dickens’ “The Bleak House”, characters have grown old, been born into, married into, and been divorced from various plaintiffs and defendants and awaited judgement with fond hope as if to The Last Day of Judgement. In this novel, Charles Dickens brings forth a long-running litigation which is an embodiment of the failures of the Chancery. His depiction of the judiciary as slow and arcane helped to spur an ongoing movement that later led to remarkable legal reforms in the Eighteenth century England. But even now, in the Twenty-first century, the same trend continues. Pendency has been an all-time dilemma in legal system which is detrimental for the people seeking justice. John Jarndyce, a character in the novel, finds the entire process of court proceedings tiresome and tries to have as little to do with it as he possibly can. He is the perfect epitome of the present-day common people who preferably stay away from the court in fear of losing their lifetime savings to their unending case.
The Judiciary is rightly called the shield of innocence and the guardian of civil rights. A good judiciary should be impartial and affordable for all the citizens irrespective of caste, region, sex, linguistic and cultural differences and economic disparity. India, the seventh largest democracy in the world (in terms of area), has an egalitarian society. The Constitution of India, the supreme legal document of the country, is embellished with the largest number of articles than any other constitution to safeguard the interests of its citizens. But even after 66 years of independence,
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In the legendary interminable case of “Jarndyce Vs Jarndyce” in Dickens’ “The Bleak House”, characters have grown old, been born into, married into, and been divorced from various plaintiffs and defendants and awaited judgement with fond hope as if to The Last Day of Judgement. In this novel, Charles Dickens brings forth a long-running litigation which is an embodiment of the failures of the Chancery. His depiction of the judiciary as slow and arcane helped to spur an ongoing movement that later led to remarkable legal reforms in the Eighteenth century England. But even now, in the Twenty-first century, the same trend continues. Pendency has been an all-time dilemma in legal system which is detrimental for the people seeking justice. John Jarndyce, a character in the novel, finds the entire process of court proceedings tiresome and tries to have as little to do with it as he possibly can. He is the perfect epitome of the present-day common people who preferably stay away from the court in fear of losing their lifetime savings to their unending case.
The Judiciary is rightly called the shield of innocence and the guardian of civil rights. A good judiciary should be impartial and affordable for all the citizens irrespective of caste, region, sex, linguistic and cultural differences and economic disparity. India, the seventh largest democracy in the world (in terms of area), has an egalitarian society. The Constitution of India, the supreme legal document of the country, is embellished with the largest number of articles than any other constitution to safeguard the interests of its citizens. But even after 66 years of independence,