"Alternative Dispute Resolution is not an alternative to the court system but only meant to supplement the same aiming on less lawyering". Comment.

The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes provide procedural flexibility, save valuable time and money and avoid the stress of a conventional trial. ADR can help in reducing the workload of regular Courts and in long run can pave way in solving the problem of judicial arrears before the Courts of law. ADR is not meant to supplant the court system because the conclusions arrived through these mechanisms are recognised by the Courts and there are provisions in law that allow for appeal against the ADR outcome in regular courts. Arbitration, mediation and conciliation are three of the most popular means of ADR. Arbitration is the means by which parties to a dispute get the same settled through the intervention of a third person (or more persons) but without recourse to a Court of Law. The parties repose confidence in the judgement of the arbitrator and show their willingness to abide by his decision.