Effective justice delivery is a perennial requirement of peace, order, civilization, and national governance under any form of government.
It is the primary responsibility of the State to ensure that everyone receives equal and impartial justice by regulating how citizens interact with one another, preventing disorder and favoritism of one class of people over others, and upholding all fundamental rights necessary for the existence and advancement of the average person by establishing an efficient justice system.
However, in practice, the promise of equality before the law does not satisfy a poor man since he lacks access to justice. Other factors that negatively impacted the administration of justice were delays, corruption, expensive litigation, access issues, a dearth of courts, judges, and government employees, a drawn-out procedure, and a lack of legal aid and legal education for the poor.
Lok Adalat has been founded as a result of these flaws in the current legal system.
- Legislations related to Lok Adalat:
- By the constitutional requirement in Article 39-A of the Constitution of India, which incorporates several provisions for dispute settlement through Lok Adalat, the National Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 provided Lok Adalats a statutory character.
- To ensure that no citizen is denied the opportunity to secure justice due to economic hardship or other disabilities, this Act establishes legal services authorities to provide competent and free legal services to the most vulnerable members of society.
- It also establishes Lok Adalats to ensure that the functioning of the legal system promotes justice on an equal opportunity basis.