Chief Justice of India Teerath Singh Thakur, who arrived here on Friday, will lay the foundation of lawyers’ Academy at Doranda and the new premises of Jharkhand State legal Services Authority (JHAlSA) at Dhurwa on Saturday.
Justice Thakur alongwith Justices R Banumathi, AK Sikri and AR Dave, is also slated to address a conclave on Mediation, a fast emerging alternative dispute resolution (ADR) tool for quick justice, at JHAlSA premises and a seminar on ‘Continuing education for lawyers and its benefits’ at State Judicial Academy.
JHAlSA has established 23 district mediation centres across the State and also a Mediation Centre at the Jharkhand High Court in Ranchi.
Recently, the Authority has inducted Mediators from various fields, including Social Services, Academics, Police Administration, Entrepreneurship, Medical, etc. as Subject Specific Expert Mediators. The Ranchi Civil Court mediation centre has achieved success rate of over 60 percent in the field of mediation, It has taken up various nature of cases ranging from partnership disputes, revenue matters, N.I. Act cases, Title Suits, Accident Claims Matters, Matrimonial Disputes, cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery, etc.
lawyers’ Academy, to be run by the Bar Council of India and State Bar Council and being set up at 34 decimal land allotted by the State Government, will be the second such institution in the country. The first academy, to impart professional training to young lawyers and brush up the legal knowledge of lawyers practising in various courts, had earlier come up in Kerala.
The Ranchi cradle will impart professional training to the budding lawyers from the eastern region states too.
State Bar Council Vice Chairman Rajesh Kumar Shukla said while doctors, engineers and other professionals had a system of updating their professional knowledge, lawyers did not have any institution which would help them stay updated about emerging trends in the profession.
The Academy would do research and provide resource material to young lawyers to come up in their career. The State Bar Council has tied up with Jharkhand State Judicial Academy to impart the training to the lawyers till its building is complete.
“A permanent training by the proposed Academy would help young lawyers keep abreast of the latest rulings of the Supreme Court and High Courts .It could also inspire and motivate young lawyers to do research in their interested branch of the judicial system,” Shukla said.