General Legal System
The main sources of law in India are the Constitution, Statutes (Legislation), Customary law, and Case law. The Statutes are enacted by Parliament, State Legislatures and Union territory Legislatures.
Because India is a land of diversity, local customs and conventions that are not against statue or morality or otherwise undesirable are, to a limited extent, also recognized and taken into account by the courts while they administer justice in certain spheres. Also, people of different religions and traditions are governed by different sets of personal law with respect to matters relating to family affairs.
A unique feature of the Indian Constitution is the judicial system. A single integrated system of courts administers both union and state laws. The Supreme Court of India, seated in New Delhi, is the highest body in the entire judicial system. Each state or a group of states had High Court under which there is a hierarchy of subordinate courts.
To encourage trade and industry to have recourse to arbitration rather than time-consuming court litigation, the existing arbitration law is proposed to be revised under the Arbitration and Conciliation Bill 1995.
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