HYDERABAD: Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Dalveer Bhandari has stressed the need for periodical evaluation of adjudication by courts at all levels to enhance the quality of justice. He also wanted the judicial officers to achieve excellence in adjudication.

In his valedictory speech at the three-day “Regional Judicial Conference (South Zone) on Enhancing Quality of Adjudication” held at Dr. Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute here on Sunday he wanted the judicial officers to update their legal knowledge frequently to ensure quality in justice.

Unfair practices

“It must be a constant endeavour for judicial officers to improve their knowledge on latest developments in judicial laws and on new subjects like information technology and cyber crimes to deliver quality judgments,” he said. The delay in judicial processes was leading to creeping of unfair practices, but the presiding officers could prevent such ills by speeding up the procedures.

Easy access to court procedures and proceedings for litigants, legal aid to poor for seeking justice by arranging competent lawyers and inculcating the culture of zero tolerance for corruption would help curtail the delay in justice and prevent unfair practices in courts, the Judge said. Acting Chief Justice of AP High Court B. Prakash Rao, Chief Justices of Kerala and Orissa High Courts J. Chalameshwar and V. Gopala Gowda, respectively, former SC Judge S.B. Sinha, Vice Chancellor of NALSAR Veer Singh, Director of National Judicial Academy (Bhopal) G. Mohan Gopa, President of AP Judicial Academy Ghulam Mohammed also participated.