Journo’s Judicious View
By a staff reporter
A Journo’s view of mediation albeit a paradox was well received at a law conference held yesterday, by the Thakur Ramnarayan College of law Dhaisar, Mumbai.
Subjects ranged from impact of competition law in the health care market, comparative analysis of Indian Price fixing cartel, constitutionality of the right to die, transformation of personnel laws need of the hour, Local arbitration and mediation to space mining. Edrich Miranda a journo with the “Afternoon D & C”, had a free run with his presentation of exposing lacuna in Local Arbitration and mediation through a non advocate’s perception unlike those in the field of law, who could not traverse constraints by virtue of being in the legal profession. Edrich had no fretters or restraint to hold him from presenting what he perceived as the true account of daily transpires in subordinate courts in Mumbai, Where Magistrates conduct mediation behind closed doors, litigants and advocates are made to vacate the court room, while the proceedings go on, resulting in that many court hours being wrongly utilized, at the peril of other litigants, another of his critical observations was that magistrates don’t qualify to preside over Mediation, because it involves more of psychology and less of law. His paper has been uploaded on “Academia.edu”, with free down load facility to public.
Dr Rashmi Oza, head of department of law, University of Mumbai, was the chief guest, the valedictory function was presided over by Dr Kiran Rai, HOD, Maharashtra National Law University.