Abstract:
lt is unfortunate, that a business going through a legal case. Legal cases are initiated
against business entities due to inappropriate or mismanagement in the business
activities. It is important, that a business institute going through the legal process should get the compensation, immediately without any delays. When law enforced on business
organizations, it is difficult to continue the business activities, effectively. Since the law
causes are being delayed to resolve, the business institutes going through financial
difficulties. In order to eliminate this kind of unfortunate situation in business entities,
it’s important to identify and know why there are delays in commercial cases, what are
the reasons for those delays, and how can these delays be prevented or overcome. To
address these issues, in this study 103 commercial cases pending in the district courts of
Ampara district was analyzed carefully. It was found the average law delay in the
- analyzed cases were surprising a higher value of 54.7 months. The involvement of
the institute in the legal cases significantly delays the case at least by 38.8 months. No
relationship was found between the monetary value of the case and the duration of the delay.
lt was revealed that inefficient lawyers, issuing delay in the summons, failing to submit
relevant documents to the courts, non-availability of new technologies, unnecessary
postponements of hearings, lack of strict law to expedite the case to a conclusion, and
ignorance of the affected parties are the main and very frequent reasons for the law
delays. Lack of judges to the courts, following old law procedures, threatening to witness,
lack of strict law to expedite the cases, failing to provide translated documents to the
court, and leave for judge are causing more duration of delays in the cases. Based on the
facts few solutions are recommended to avoid such delays.
