India, Sept. 28 -- Supreme Court Judge NV Anjaria on Sunday said solutions arrived at in family disputes through courts often become artificial, with parties feeling that justice has been foisted upon them, which becomes "illusory and partakes injustice".

Mediation is the most befitting Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism for resolving family problems as they are "human disputes arising out of human sentiments", Justice Anjaria said. He was delivering the keynote address at the Eastern Zone Regional Conference on 'ADR vs Adjudication in Family Disputes: Challenges and Way Forward' here.

"Forget our sanskar, the sanskar of Bharat, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, now we are struggling to keep even a single family united and one," the ju...