Campus Report :
Speakers at a seminar on ‘ADR in Bangladesh’ jointly organized by Dhaka International University (DIU) and Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) emphasized the need for wide implementation of ADR mechanisms to decrease the backlog of cases of our country.
They said, both inferior and superior judiciary in Bangladesh are overstrained with more than 2.5 million civil and criminal cases demanding effective operation of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to reduce the pressure on all tiers of the courts. Key problems like cost, complexity and delay of adversarial litigation procedure can effectively be reduced by mere introduction of arbitration, mediation, negotiation, conciliation and other forms of ADR in our laws and court systems. In addition, mind set up and culture of litigation should be changed to bring an effective solution for easy access to justice for dispute affected poor and marginal people as well as the institutions.
Dr Taufiq Ali, Chief Executive of BIAC presented the keynote paper at the seminar held at the Dr MI Patwary auditorium of DIU’s green road campus recently. Prof Dr KM Mohsin, Vice Chancellor of DIU was the Chief Guest and delivered the vote of thanks while Dr SQ Patwari, Chairman of the board of trustees of DIU was the guest of honour and delivered the address of welcome in the seminar.
Barrister Jennifer Ashraf and Advocate Khalid Yhayea were the discussants in the program while the seminar was emceed by RaisuL Islam Sourav, senior lecturer and coordinator of the department of law of DIU.
The spokesmen also mentioned the loopholes of the existing provisions of ADR in our legal system, specially the provision of the Artha Rin Adalat Ain and the Civil Procedure Code to go to the court for ADR.
