Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Legal Studies

Chapter

Arbitration, Tribunal Adjudication and Alternate Dispute resolution

Question:

Assertion: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system refers to the use of adversarial techniques of adjudication of legal disputes.
Reasoning: The history of ADR in India pre-dates the modern adversarial model of Indian judiciary.

Options:

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R) is not correct.

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Correct Answer:

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Explanation:

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system refers to the use of non-adversarial techniques of adjudication of legal disputes.

taking The history of ADR in India pre-dates the modern adversarial model of Indian judiciary. The Vedic age in India, witnessed the flourishing of specialised tribunals such as Kula (for disputes of family, community, tribe, castes, races), Shreni (for internal disputes in business, corporation of artisans) and Puga (for association of traders/commerce branches). In these institutions, interest-based negotiations dominated with a neutral third party seeking to identify the underlying needs and concerns of the parties in dispute.