Mumbai University Solved Question Papers
Alternate Dispute Resolution System
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
BLS LLB 5 Years · Sem 10
Nov 2023 - 60/40 Examination
munotes.in
Mumbai
BLS LLB 5 Years Sem 10 Alternate Dispute Resolution System Nov 2023 - 60/40 Question Paper with Solutions
Get access to whole semester resourcesSemester Pass
MU law student group
Free to join
First published on munotes.in on 24 October 2026.
Published by munotes.in, Mumbai.
Model answers written and edited by the munotes.in editorial desk.
Passages from this volume may be quoted, in print, online or by an AI system, with credit: name munotes.in and link to this volume's page. The volume may not be reproduced as a whole. Full terms at munotes.in/content-license.
munotes.in is an independent study resource for students of the University of Mumbai. It is not affiliated with the University of Mumbai, and is not endorsed by it.
The University does not publish an official answer key for this paper. The answers in this volume are model answers, written to show how a full-mark answer is built. They are a study aid, not an authority on what an examiner marked.
The question paper reproduced here is the paper as set by the University of Mumbai at the Nov 2023 - 60/40 examination.
Contents
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Nov 2023 - 60/40 examination, in the order it was set.
MarksPage
MarksPage
The Paper as Set
The questions in this volume are the questions asked at the Nov 2023 - 60/40 examination, reproduced as the University of Mumbai set them, in the order it set them. Nothing has been reworded, added or left out. Only the answers are ours. See the original question paper.
Duration 2 hours · Total marks 60 · 22 questions answered
How to use this volume
Solve the paper first, under exam conditions and against the clock. Then read the answers here and mark your own. Reading a solution before attempting the question feels productive and teaches very little, because recognising an answer is not the same as being able to write one.
Q.1
Q.1: Answer in one or two sentences
6 out of 10 · (12 Marks - 2 marks each)
(1)What is the nature of the A.D.R. system?[2]
Answer
The A.D.R. (alternative dispute resolution) system is the set of methods for settling disputes outside the regular civil trial. Its nature can be described by its features.
- Consensual. It rests on the parties' choice: an arbitration agreement, an accepted invitation to conciliate, or consent to mediate. Some references are made by a court under a statute (section 89, Code of Civil Procedure; section 20, Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987).
- Run by a neutral. Except in negotiation, an independent third person helps or decides.
- Flexible and informal. Tribunals and conciliators are not bound by the Code of Civil Procedure or the Evidence Act (sections 19(1) and 66, Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996).
- Private and confidential (sections 42A and 75 of the 1996 Act).
- Either adjudicatory or facilitative. In arbitration a third person decides; in the other methods the parties decide.
- Complementary to the courts. Courts refer cases to it, support it, and enforce its results as decrees.
Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. v. Cherian Varkey Construction Co. (P) Ltd., (2010) 8 SCC 24. The Supreme Court described arbitration as "an adjudicatory dispute resolution process by a private forum". It described conciliation as "a non-adjudicatory ADR process". It held that a court must consider ADR under section 89, but need not refer every case. That captures the system's nature: voluntary in form, supported by courts, and adjudicatory or not depending on the method.
The rest of the answers
The first answer is free. The rest come with the B.L.S. LL.B. 5 Years Semester 10 solved papers.
You have read the question paper and its first answer in full. Buy the solved papers once and you can read every answer of every solved paper in this semester.
Notes + Solved papers: ₹798 Already bought it? Sign in
Or solved papers only: ₹499
Or notes only: ₹499
The question paper itself stays free, and so does the syllabus.
Found an error in this volume? Report it and we will check it against the paper.