Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 46 · Decided 14 January 2011
B.S. Krishna Murthy and ANR. v. B.S. Nagaraj and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 46 · [2011] 1 S.C.R. 387
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 2896/2010
- Decided
- 14 January 2011
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, GYAN SUDHA MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 89
Headnote
Alternative disputes redressa/: Mediation - Disputes involving family and business relationships - Resolution of, A B by mediation - Responsibility of lawyers - Held: It is the C responsibility of lawyers to advise their clients to try for mediation for resolving the disputes, like family and business relationships are involved, otherwise the litigation would drag on for years and decades - Lawyers as well as litigants ought to follow D Mahatma Gandhi's advice in the matter and try for arbitration/ mediation - This is also the purpose of s. 89 - In the instant
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