Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Legal Studies

Chapter

Judiciary

Question:

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follows.

The adversarial system that the colonial era brought in, made access to justice difficult because it ended the era of informal dispute settlement prevalent in the Indian Society leaving aside the quality of justice dispensation in the indigenous mode. The Pre-British system was accessible as it was not technical or formal and was conducted in a language known to parties. The Supreme Court also observed that our judicature moulded by Anglo-American Models and our judicial process engineered by kindred legal technology compel the collaboration of lawyer - power or steering the wheels of equal justice under the law.

Like India, UK has also adopted adversarial legal system. Under this legal system:

Options:

the judge takes a centre stage in dispensing justice

the judge decides the manner in which the evidence must be presented before the court

less reliance is placed on cross-examination

the parties develop their own theory of the case and general evidence

Correct Answer:

the parties develop their own theory of the case and general evidence

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → the parties develop their own theory of the case and general evidence