The Law Ministry would suggest all high courts to function on holidays, particularly to address family disputes, as those professionals approaching the courts would be busy on weekdays, Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said here today.

"The Holiday Court is an idea mooted by the Chief Justice of Madras High Court (Iqbal) since those professionals approaching the courts are busy on weekdays," Moily told reporters after holding the regional conference for judges of the four southern states here.

"I think we are going to suggest to all the high courts to adopt this kind of a process," he said.

He said matters relating to family courts were discussed at the meeting and the Law Ministry was taking various methods to address these issues as a large number cases were pending in family courts.

Stating that the 13th Finance Commission has granted Rs 5,000 crore for development of infrastructure and for want of trained manpower, he said instead of creating new infrastructure, utilising the existing one may yield better results.

"Of course we have judicial academies at national and state levels. Instead of creating new infrastructure, we may use infrastructure like the police academies to train public prosecutors and advocates," he said. .


Moily said the Legal Education as of today was not in a position to meet new challenges like the Cyber Law.

He said out of the Rs 5,000 crore granted by the Commission, Rs 932 crore was allotted to four Southern States and Rs 93 crore was given as first installment.

On the implementation of e-Courts, Moily said Kerala and Tamil Nadu were in advance-stage on computerisation.

"With the implementation of e-Courts, we may end up with paperless courts," he said.

Reacting to the vacancies available in High Courts and sub-courts, he said if all the judicial posts were filled up, 30 per cent of problem would be over with regard to the disposal of the cases.

Moily also suggested the idea of fast processing of cases and added that the last man in the queue also gets justice.

"The cases should not be prolonged and our ultimate idea is from four years, any litigation need to be reduced to less than three years and that is our objective...We are working on that," he said.

Currently there were about four crore cases pending in courts, he said, adding, 2.7 crore cases were pending in sub-courts, 40 lakh in High Courts and 50,000 in Supreme Court.