IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/anf/wpaper/46.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

What comes after Judgement Day

Author

Listed:
  • Pavithra Manivannan

    (xKDR Forum)

  • Gokul K. Sunoj

    (xKDR Forum)

  • Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah

    (The Professeer)

Abstract

How long does it take to enforce a court decree in India? This paper seeks to answer this question for civil and commercial litigation and arbitration awards. We measure the duration and mode of disposal of about 20,000 applications filed before the Bombay High Court for the enforcement of court decrees during an eight year period. We find that it takes close to two years to enforce a decree in India. While this finding aligns with anecdotal estimates, we dig deeper to find how such application proceedings are disposed of. We find that a bulk of the execution applications are dismissed by the court not on merit but for reasons of non-prosecution. We offer plausible explanations for such poor enforcement outcomes.

Suggested Citation

  • Pavithra Manivannan & Gokul K. Sunoj & Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah, 2025. "What comes after Judgement Day," Working Papers 46, xKDR.
    • Handle: RePEc:anf:wpaper:46
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://papers.xkdr.org/papers/2025Manivannanetal_executionApplications_bhc.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2025
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General
    • K41 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Litigation Process

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:anf:wpaper:46. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ami Dagli (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.papers.xkdr.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.