{"id":258274,"date":"2021-12-09T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=258274"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T09:51:40","slug":"motor-vehicle-appellate-tribunals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/12\/09\/motor-vehicle-appellate-tribunals\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Motor Vehicle Appellate Tribunals\u2019 may soon be a reality? Read SC’s suggestion to Ministry of Law and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court<\/strong>: With an aim to curtail the pendency before the High Courts and for speedy disposal of the appeals concerning payment of compensation to the victims of road accident, the bench of SA Nazeer*<\/strong> and Krishna Murari, JJ has asked the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice to consider constituting \u2018Motor Vehicle Appellate Tribunals\u2019 by amending Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act so that the appeals challenging the award of a Tribunal could be filed before the Appellate Tribunal so constituted.<\/p>\n

The order came after the Court noticed that a large number of claim petitions, under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 are being filed before the various Claims Tribunals established thereunder throughout the country. Against the awards of the Tribunals, appeals are filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 before the relevant High Court, either by the claimants or by the insurers and owners of the offending vehicles. Large number of such appeals are pending before the various High Courts.<\/p>\n

The Court went on to give the following suggestions:<\/p>\n