SC: Do not drag case for yrs, go for mediation
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked advocates to follow Mahatma Gandhi
and persuade their clients not to go in for litigation and instead resolve the
disputes through arbitration and mediation.
A bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra said court cases
drag on for years ruining both parties. "Lawyers should advise their clients to
try for mediation for resolving disputes, especially where family and business
relationships are involved," it said. The bench asked two brothers, B S Krishna
Murthy and B S Nagaraj, to appear before the Bangalore mediation centre for
settlement. A few passages of Mahatma Gandhi's book, `My Experiments With
Truth', on the futility of litigation impressed the bench. TNN