India, Sept. 29 -- If trials deliver verdicts, mediation delivers futures, Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant has said, applauding Parliament's enactment of the Mediation Act, 2023, while cautioning that the real measure of its success will not be found in the text of the statute but in the trust it inspires among citizens.

Justice Kant, who is set to take over as the Chief Justice of India (CJI) in November, was addressing the 2nd National Mediation Conference in Bhubaneshwar on September 27. The event was also attended by Odisha governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, CJI Bhushan R Gavai, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi.

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