Justice Department launches “Enforcing Contracts Portal”
The
portal aims to promote ease of doing business and improve ‘Contract Enforcement
Regime’ in country
The
portal is envisioned to be a comprehensive source of information pertaining to the
legislative and policy reforms being undertaken on the “Enforcing Contracts” parameters
The
portal to provide easy access to latest information on commercial cases in Dedicated
Commercial Courts of Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata
The
portal to also provide access to repository of commercial laws for ready reference
On 28th June, 2021 an exclusive “Enforcing Contracts Portal”
was inaugurated by Barun Mitra,
Secretary (Justice) at the Department of Justice, Delhi in the presence of senior
officers of the Department of Justice.
Homepage of the Enforcing Contracts Portal:
The Doing Business Report of World Bank Group benchmarks business
regulations across 191 economies of the world. Within this, the Ease of Doing Business
(EoDB) index is a ranking system which is an indication
of an economy’s position relative to that of other economies across 11 areas of
business regulation. The “Enforcing Contracts” indicator is one such essential area
that measures time and cost to resolve a standardized commercial dispute as well
as a series of good practices in the judiciary. Currently, only the cities of Delhi
and Mumbaiare under the purview of the Ease of Doing Business
survey by World Bank. Kolkata and Bengaluru are likely to be included in the Doing
Business Report in future.
Department
of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, as the nodal department has been monitoring
an array of legislative and policy reforms to strengthen
the “Enforcing Contracts” regime for Ease of Doing Business in India in coordination
with e-Committee, Supreme Court of India and the High Courts of Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta
and Karnataka. In close collaboration with all of them, Department of Justice has
been aggressively pursuing various reform measures to create an effective, efficient,
transparent and robust ‘Contract Enforcement Regime’.
The portal is envisioned to be a
comprehensive source of information pertaining to the legislative and policy reforms
being undertaken on the “Enforcing Contracts” parameters. It includes the latest
data related to the functioning and disposal of commercial cases in the Dedicated
Commercial Courts of Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata. These Dedicated Commercial
Courts have
been established for speedy resolution of commercial disputes
and boast of dedicated infrastructure and exclusive judicial human power.
In order to make access to information on commercial court and related
services easy, the portal contains several features such as details/links of the
Dedicated Commercial Courts in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata ; instructive
videos related to e-filing, advocate registration; manuals on using the Electronic
Case Management Tools(ECMTs) like Just IS app for judicial officers and e-Courts
services app for use by lawyers (developed by the e-Committee, Supreme Court of
India) and a repository of all related commercial laws for ready reference.
The new portal also hosts online reporting by all High Courts regarding
the Mediation and Arbitration centres annexed to the Commercial
Courts in order to monitor and promote institutional mediation & arbitration
by way of Pre-institution Mediation and Settlement (PIMS) of commercial cases.
PIMS has been introduced with the aim of reducing pendency
of cases and to promote mediation as a viable dispute resolution alternative in
commercial cases.
The Enforcing Contracts portal direct URL link :
https://doj.gov.in/eodb/