Silver jubilee memoir (1994-2019)

The Law Commission of India, in its 77 report, while dealing with the question of delay and arrears in trial courts, verbalised that "the nature and degree of knowledge, skills and ethics of the people on the one hand, and clarity in their appreciation of and commitment to the objectives on the other, are critical to the internal efficiencies and external effectiveness of organisation." The Commission had suggested that the training course for recruits to district judiciary must be provided. The 1983 Conference of the Chief Justices of High Courts adopted a resolution requesting the Government to set up regional training institutes for members of subordinate judiciary in four zones of the country. In 1986, the Law Commission of India, in its 117 report on "Training of Judicial Officers", has underlined the need for a comprehensive training programme for judicial officers. The Commission has opined that "expectation from the Judiciary by the society is very high. An honest, intelligent and upright Judge inspires so much confidence in the society that any investment in producing such Judges should not be viewed from the standpoint of cost benefit syndrome."
Nevertheless, the need for judicial training and its instrumentality has always been placed next in importance in the system. Institutional training to the judicial officers has hardly engaged the attention. The issue of judicial education has not received its due recognition until the recommendations of XIII Finance Commission in 2010.