<h1>Restore tribunal's finality to cut avoidable appeals: full benches, e-filing, AI systems, timely case management and capacity building</h1> A government minister urged measures to reduce avoidable high-court appeals in service disputes by restoring the Central Administrative Tribunal's (CAT) original mandate to provide finality and relieve higher courts, calling for full-strength benches, timely disposal, modernised case-management, e-filing, digitisation, virtual hearings and AI-enabled systems. Proposals included performance benchmarks across benches, nodal offices in departments to review litigation, a national tribunal database, multilingual judgment translation and infrastructure and manpower strengthening. Senior judiciary and law officers endorsed reducing appeal cycles, improving appointment quality, and expanding capacity-building to ensure efficient, transparent adjudication in service jurisprudence.