Courts and other dispute resolution mechanisms


Building data and research to provide policy support for judicial systems reforms.

Data from courts and quasi-judicial tribunals in India is increasingly emerging as a powerful tool to study the functioning of the judiciary and the impact of enforcement of laws on the economy and society. Our research focuses on developing discrete data-sets from websites of courts and tribunals in India using a combination of skills in law, technology and economics. These data-sets form the foundation to understand and analyse the links between court-performance and observed economic outcomes in the domains of bankruptcy and company law.



Public discourse

How did courts respond to the pandemic lockdowns: evidence from the NCLT
Pavithra Manivannan, Susan Thomas and Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah
The LEAP Blog,
27th March 2022
Litigation in public contracts: some estimates from court data
Devendra Damle, Karan Gulati, Anjali Sharma and Bhargavi Zaveri
The LEAP Blog,
26th May 2021
Judicial triage in the lockdown: evidence from India's largest commercial tribunal
Anjali Sharma and Bhargavi Zaveri
The LEAP Blog,
15th October 2020
Measuring court output in the pandemic: evidence from India's largest commercial tribunal
Anjali Sharma and Bhargavi Zaveri
The LEAP Blog,
11th September 2020

Datasets

The NCLT cause-lists data-set 2020