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3. Law, especially industrial law, which regulates the rights and remedies
of the working class, unfamiliar with the sophistications of definitions
and shower of decisions, unable to secure expert legal opinion, what with
poverty pricing them out to the justice market and denying them the staying
power to withstand the multi-decked litigative process, de facto denies
social justice if legal drafting is vagarious, definitions indefinite and
Court rulings contradictory. Is it possible, that the legislative chambers
are too pre-occupied with other pressing business to listen to Court
signals calling for clarification ambiguous clauses? A careful, prompt
amendment of Section 2(j) would have pre-empted this docket explosion
before tribunals and Courts. This Court, perhaps more than the legislative
and Executive branches, is deeply concerned with law's delays and to devise
a prompt delivery system of social justice.''
[Emphasis added]
It is to be noted further that in the order of reference made to the seven
judges' Bench in the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board Case, the
judges referring the case had stated thus: