We have noted that though the Bombay High Court had granted stay to the transfer of pending adoption matters to the District Magistrate, by directing that ongoing cases shall continue in the Court, in ...

under the Act is for a mediation agreement to be executed in writing to submit to mediation. Thus, the mediation contemplated by the Mediation Act is not compulsory but a consensual mediation.

The 5-step system below takes tools familiar to advocates—reminders, summaries, checklists—and adapts them to the judge’s ...