On 14th March 2026, National Law University Delhi and Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University jointly organised a seminar on the theme “Delivering Justice in Time: Global Practices & Indian Experiences” at the Jacaranda Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, bringing together eminent members of the legal fraternity, senior advocates, policymakers, technologists, and distinguished academics to deliberate on one of the most pressing concerns of our times: judicial delay and the timely delivery of justice.
The Inaugural Session was graced by Mr. R. Venkataramani, Attorney General for India, and Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Vice Chancellor, National Law University Delhi and Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University.
The seminar featured three thematic sessions on institutional and procedural reforms in court systems, technology and digital innovations in justice delivery, and plea bargaining and pre-trial mechanisms, each rich with voices rarely gathered in the same room.
Across all three sessions, the academic voices from National Law University Delhi lent the deliberations their characteristic precision. Dr. Garima Tiwari, Associate Professor, in Session I highlighted along with the other panel members that the pendency and delay is not merely procedural but structural and there is need for strengthening judicial capacity, improving case-flow management, and investing in court infrastructure, and Dr. Aprajita Bhatt, Associate Professor, in Session II, whose verbal intervention on administrative technology and artificially trusted systems in judicial processes was among the day’s most thought-provoking moments.
The Keynote Address in Session III by Professor (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Vice Chancellor, NLU Delhi, was nothing short of remarkable, his articulation of India’s structural deficits in the plea bargaining framework in relation to conviction stigma, mismatched prosecutorial role and more, set the intellectual tone for all that followed, along with Ms. Priyanshi Singh, Academic Fellow, graciously moderating session III.