court management-mentor judge--District Court Thane Maharashtra India
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Court Management
Pilot Project
Executive summary
The greatest problem of district courts is that of huge backlog of cases leading to undue
delay in deciding cases. Shifting the blame on judicial system only will not cure such problem.
Now recently the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India has launched a National Court Management
Program.
New Methods and New Roles are necessary in the Justice Delivery System which was
pleased to addressed by Hon'ble Shri. Justice Mohit S.Shah, Chief Justice of the Bombay High
Court at the inauguration of the conference of the Judicial officer on “Enhancing Quality of
Adjudication” at Judicial Academy Uttan, Thane.
At District & Sessions Court, Thane , formulated a mission to develop “ Best
Practices Guide” for improving Judicial Quality, Enhancing court management and reduce
pendency.
The Hon'ble Shri. K.K. Sonawane, Principal District Judge, Thane who is also the
Patron-In-Chief of this mission pleased to establish to develop Best Practices Guide at Thane
Court with a series of administrative stages to facilitate continuous monitoring , mentoring and ,
if necessary to to guide to ensure cases are disposed at the earliest opportunity at Civil Judge
Junior Division and J.M.F.C. Courts.
This pilot project is for the one of the object from the mission to develop Best
Practices Guide , to decrease old pendency and Increase rate of disposal in Civil Judge Junior
Division and J.M.F.C. Courts Bhiwandi District Thane. The period of Pilot project was from
December 2012 to February 2013. It is an Executive Mentoring program.
There are Eight Courts of Civil Judge Jr. Dn. & J.M.F.C at Bhiwandi Thane.
Physical verification of cases by qualitative and quantitative manner is like a health
check of the the court. Unless physically fit , the surgery can not be carried out. So, unless cases
are physically verified by qualitative and quantitative way , the result for new method can not be
Calculated /evaluated. At four courts , physical verification by quantitative method was carried
out , therefore those courts are selected and taken as Pilot courts. Other Four courts where
balance sheet and physical verification was not carried out , those are considered as Nonpiloting courts. Some Pilot courts are concentrating over criminal cases though civil cases are
vested to them. Mentoring sessions were held for all courts. This pilot project shows effect over
piloting and non piloting area.
In this pilot project, the disposal from previous three months from September 2012 to
November 2012 was compared with the disposal during the pilot project period . The aspects
are researched , for pilot courts , increasing percentage rate of disposal per...