PRIORITIES GIVEN BY THE HONOURABLE CHIEF JUSTICE SK KHANNA FOR REDUCING THE PENDING BACKLOG EXISTING IN THE COURTS AND MAKE LITIGATION AFFORDABLE FOR THE CITIZENS.

After the retirement of the former CJI of the honourable supreme Court of India honourable justice SK Khanna in a message delivered after joining the post of CJI pointed that judiciary is an integral part of the governance system made for the democratic reforms under law code manual prefixed by the Constitution of India in this behalf and where the constitutional of India trust upon the judiciary as a role of the constitutional guardian and protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens of the country and it is necessary to work for the reduction of pendency of cases and reduce the backlog, make litigation affordable and also to simplify complex legal processes so required for making the judgements comprehensible to the citizens and promoting mediation should be the priority of the judiciary, more over legal procedures are not grueling for the citizens. A day after taking over as the Chief Justice of the honourable Supreme Court of country CJI justice SK Khanna urged the lawyers to either send e -mails or the written letters for urgent listing of cases instead of the following an usual practice of orally mentioning of cases in the session of work, before listed for the hearings.