There are several alarming figures that sum up the need for judicial reform, especially in the domain of contract enforcement. This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the solution to improve contract enforcement in India, lobbying for a demand-side approach. It focuses on the offer of judgment rule, i.e. Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as suggested by Shubho Roy, and builds on that. The paper reviews the existing scholarly work on the current debate on the efficacy of Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

This report highlights key issues litigants face in India due to regulatory gaps in the legal services sector. This paper puts forward an agenda for reform in the regulatory framework, for consideration of the Law Commission.

Legal services in India are regulated by the Advocates Act, 1961 (hereafter, Advocates Act), which constitutes the Bar Council of India (BCI) and respective State Bar Councils. The paper identifies two key areas that put litigants availing legal services at a disadvantage:

The Parliament of India introduced the Street Vendors Act 2014 with an aim to protect the rights of urban street vendors and regulate street vending. Among other things, the Act aims to formalise vendors by surveying them, providing them with vending certificates, demarcating vending zones, and putting in pla +ce institutions like the Grievance Redressal Committees and Town Vending Committees (TVCs).

The Grande Dame of the informal sector, a gentle revolutionary and a Gandhian at heart, lives on as a personal hero of millions of workers, reformers, and street vendors across the country.

पथ विक्रेता (जीविका सुरक्षा एवं पथ विक्रय विनियमन) अधिनियम 2014”  पथ विक्रेताओं को जीविका संरक्षण का अधिकार, सामाजिक सुरक्षा और देश में पथ विक्रय के विनियमन के बारे में सुरक्षा प्रदान करता है। पथ विक्रेता अधिनियम का उद्देश्य पथ विक्रेताओं के हितों की रक्षा करना एवं पथ विक्रय गतिविधियों को नियमित करना है। साथ ही, इस अधिनियम का उद्देश्य पथ विक्रेताओं हेतु ऐसा माहौल तैयार करना है जिसमें वे सुगमता तथा बिना किसी उत्पीड़न के व्यापर कर पाये। पथ विक्रेता कानून को लागू हुए 8 साल हो चुके हैं, लेकिन आज भी रेडी पटरी विक्रेता अपने अधिकारों से वंचित हैं। जिसकी वजह से विक्रेताओं को रोजान