Location is a critical factor in the success of dispute resolution proceedings. A wise choice of venue bodes well for the speed, quality and enforceability of the ruling. Alfred Romann reports
In his masterpiece Bleak House, Charles Dickens wrote of a seemingly perpetual lawsuit and its impact on various generations. The case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce dragged on for decades – to the point where no one even knew what it was about.
Dickens could have been writing about contemporary India: a country that has no lack of love for long and expensive litigation of a type that would make Bleak House more of a short story than a novel.
In one infamous example, a property suit filed in Calcutta on 16 September 1836 remains unresolved, with the contested property still in the custody of the local courts.
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