NEED FOR GOOD JUSTICE DELIVERY SYSTEM
STRESSED
The Minister of Information
& Broadcasting, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that if
good governance and reforms have to succeed, a good justice delivery
system has to be ensured. He said an easier access to criminal
justice and speedier dispensation of justice is required and some
new instruments of justice are immediately needed to meet the
requirements of globalization and domestic reforms.
Delivering the
Keynote Address at the two-day Seminar on "Access to Justice"
organised by the Supreme Court Advocates on Record and UNDP, Shri
Prasad said the judges and other legal officers need continuous
in-service training to keep them abreast with the changes. He
said the moral authority of a judge is his real power and the
sustenance of this moral authority has to be ensured.
Referring to
the changing scenario in view of the globalisation and reforms,
Shri Prasad said that we cannot miss the compelling needs of domestic
reforms. Access to justice has to be linked to economic growth.
For instance, he said, the Copyright Act which also deals with
the piracy in music and CD etc. has a low priority so far as our
courts and law enforcing agencies are concerned. But the entertainment
sector which is otherwise getting importance worldwide is being
bled by piracy which is driving the music companies out of business.
All such new issues need to be addressed, he said.
