A sound judiciary is key to enforcing laws and creating trust in the economy, allowing economic exchange between complete strangers by deterring fraud and increasing the incentives for fair play. A slow judiciary with a large number of pending cases reduces trust in the economy and makes people fearful. A slow judiciary forces participants to adopt loss-minimizing strategies that are not always efficient. Judicial effectiveness varies considerably throughout the country, and this has allowed researchers to measure the impact of a slow judiciary on various outcomes. The problem of pendency has become worse in the last decade as the average percentage of cases under trial in state high courts and lower courts increased from 82.8% to 84.81% in the previous decade.

Source: Mint January 30, 2018 17:26 UTC