Use ADR system
Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday urged the lower court judges to encourage litigants to use the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) system to settle cases outside the court in order to reduce the backlog of cases.
If the ADR system is used, it will be possible to reduce the backlog and thereby provide the people with legal aid within a very short period, he added.
The government has included the rules of ADR system in the Code of Civil Procedure and Orthorin Adalot (Money Loan Court) Act for this purpose, said Anisul while addressing the inauguration of the functions of the National Justice Coordination Committee as the chief guest.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised the event at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
Law and Justice Division Secretary ASSM Zahirul Haque Dulal presided over the occasion where Additional Inspector General of Police Mokhlesur Rahman, acting registrar general of the Supreme Court Md Zakir Hossain, Inspector General of Prisons Syed Iftekhar Uddin, and UNDP's Bangladesh Country Director Sudipta Mukharjee also spoke.
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