International experts participating in the Colloquium provided comparative perspectives on Access to Justice. The papers produced focused, in particular, on confronting obstacles to access, on the challenges which poverty poses to access, and on innovating for access.

I. Confronting Obstacles to Access to Justice

Hon. Mr Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid (Retd.),
'Delay, Arrears and the Denial of Justice'

Professor Kathleen Mahoney,
'Access to Justice and Gender'

II. Challenges of Poverty

Mr. R. Sudarshan,
'Interdependence in Overcoming Injustice(s) of
Poverty: Some Preliminary Observations'

Mr. Michael Anderson,
'Delivering Access to Justice at the District Level'

III. Innovating for Access to Justice

1. Public Interest Litigation
Professor S. P. Sathe,
'Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic and Cultural Rights'

2. Alternative Dispute Resolution
Professor Marc Galanter and Jayanth Krishnan,
'Debased Informalism: Lok Adalats and
Legal Rights in Modern India'

3. Enforcement of Court Judgements
Mr. S. Muralidhar,
'Implementation of Court Orders in the Area of Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights: An Overview of the Experience of the Indian Judiciary'

4. Judicial Education
Hon. Madam Justice Catherine A. Fraser,
'Creating Access to Justice through Social Context Judicial Education:
Correcting the Blindness'

 

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