Question

Does Everyone Have Access to the Courts?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Yes ,according to our constitution every citizen has right to justice through courts.

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Answer 2

In principle, all citizens of India can access the courts. This implies that every citizen has a right to justice through the courts. The courts also play a significant role in protecting over Fundamental Rights.

But, in reality access to courts has always been difficult for a vast majority of the poor in India due to following reasons :

• Legal procedure involves a lot of money and paper work as well as takes раper up a lot of time.

• For a poor person who cannot read and whose family depends on a daily wage, the idea of going to court and to get justice offen seems remote or difficult.

Positive Approach

• To do away with the difficulty the Supreme Court in the early 1980s devised a mechanism of Public Interest Litigation or PIL to increase access to justice.

• Under this, it allowed any individual or organisation to file a PIL in the High Court or the Supreme Court on behalf of those whose rights were being violated,

• The PIL has greatly simplified the legal process. Even a letter or telegram addressed to the Supreme Court or the High Court can be treated as a PIL.

• Even the provision of the mid-day meal that children now get in government-aided schools is because of a PIL.

Thus, for the common man, access to courts is access to justice. It is due to courts interpretation 'Article 21' of the Constitution that the Right to Life has included Right to Food.

Negative Approach

• But again, in some cases, the court judgements work against the best interests of the common person. For instance, activists who work on issues concerning the right to shelter and housing for the poor believe that the recent judgements on evictions are a far cry from the earlier judgements.

• Another issue that affects the common man's access to justice is the inordinate long number of years that courts take to hear a case. This is often said as "Justice delayed is justice denied."