Explain and distinguish between Lok Adalats and Arbitration Tribunals. Whether they entertain civil as well as criminal cases?
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Use it to open by placing Lok Adalats and arbitration within India's statutory ADR toolkit, now expanded by the Mediation Act, 2023.
- Section 89 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 lets a court refer a dispute to arbitration, conciliation, judicial settlement including a Lok Adalat, or mediation.
- The Mediation Act, 2023 gives mediation a statutory framework, including pre-litigation mediation under Section 5; Justice Nagarathna stressed mediation is not a substitute for adjudication.
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Lok Adalats and arbitration are the alternative routes to cut pendency; the retirement-age order is the supply-side route, and both belong in an answer on backlog.