A total 8,152 benches were constituted by 31 State legal services authorities to hold the national Lok Adalat through virtual and physical mode across the country.
Context
- A total 8,152 benches were constituted by 31 State legal services authorities to hold the national Lok Adalat through virtual and physical mode across the country.
What is National Lok Adalat?
- National lok adalats are conducted quarterly.
- They settlement the cases (both pre-litigation and post-litigation) in all the courts from the Supreme Court to the taluk courts on a single day.
Lok Adalat
- Lok Adalat is conducted by National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).
- It is an alternative method of dispute resolution.
- It is a forum where disputes pending in courts or at pre-litigation stage are settled or compromised amicably.
- Lok Adalats have been given statutory status under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
- Under the Act, the decision made by lok Adalats is deemed to be a decree of a civil court.
- The decision is final and binding on all parties and no appeal lies against such an award before any court.
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