The delays and legal complexities as well as the exhausting costs that are part of formal litigation were lampooned in the fictional case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’...
Expeditious justice and ADR
July 16, 2021
My fathers’ aunt migrated from India in 1947, and got a small house in Rawalpindi against the claim for the property left in Uttar Pradesh. In sheer affection, she also accommodated her sister in the same house. But for the next thirty years, she and her heirs paid heavily for the price of that love by visiting the courts.
The sister had gone to the court to lay her claim for the same house where she was welcomed as a guest and continued to live in for the next three decades. The system’s delay and apathy resulted in any family affection getting lost in the process.