All these courts are in the area around monumental India Gate and National War Memorial. The roads around these courts are generally chocked with parking of lawyers’ vehicles. Parking indiscipline is quite visible around all these courts. One wonders why traffic police is allowing this to happen in the area where national symbols of our country are located. The reasons are known to those who are familiar with atmosphere in courts in Delhi.

I often wonder, to what extent the judicial infrastructure will go on expanding. More and more space would be needed so long we stick to feudalistic system of judicial administration. The system is in urgent need of simplification and modernisation. But frankly, some persons in lawyer community itself are not keen to do it. Somehow they are quite happy with the existing system.

Let us have a survey of public satisfaction of our existing judicial system. Many things will come out of it. Lawyer community need to reflect on why movies like Jolly LLB 1, 2 and 3 are successful. Why there is public appeal for these movies. It means there is some truth in them. We lawyer community need to think why there is no public outrage against Bulldozer way of controlling crime in U.P. As a matter of course, there ought to have been public outcry against it but it has gained public acceptability to a considerable extent.

The entire set of procedural laws need a change. Mediation, Conciliation, arbitration and judicial determination need to be converted into a comprehensive system where conflict is resolved in a reasonable time and with affordable expenses. We do not need more infrastructure, rather we need simplified and modernized legal procedures in which even the existing infrastructure would be more than sufficient at least in courts located in New Delhi. Let us do some introspection.