Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) on Reducing Case Backlogs in Bangladesh: A Critical Study

Abstract

Bangladesh, one of the developing countries in the world, hosts an estimated population of 173 million, of which 33.7 percent are reported as living below the national poverty line. Apart from evident deficiencies in food, housing, health care, education and job opportunities, endemic poverty of millions of Bangladeshis is manifest in the denial of their lack of access to institutions established for the enforcement of those rights. People who are poor, weak and disadvantaged and more particularly women, face innumerable obstacles in accessing justice from the more formal state organs, which are plagued by corruption, delays, complicated procedures, exorbitant costs and class biases. In the circumstances, the common people to resolve their problems and disputes at the community or local level in an informal way. In legal circles this popularly known as alternative dispute resolution or simply ADR. This article discuss about ADR.