All high courts will go digital by year end: Justice Lokur

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Good move! Digitisation of courts will help in speeding up the cases!!

[h=1]All high courts will go digital by year end: Justice Lokur[/h]

October 28, 2017 20:55

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All the high courts in the country will go digital by the year end under the National Judicial Data Grid, Chairperson of the Supreme Court e-Committee Justice Madan B Lokur said today.

Four high courts were already "completely live" with all the information available online and by the year end, all the high courts in the country would be under the data grid, he said inaugurating the digitisation Centre of the Madras high court.

Justice Lokur said that the next step will be to implement e-filing and noted even the stamp fee can be purchased online.

There will be a huge change in the entire judicial system next year, the Supreme Court judge said.

The e-Committee has also decided to introduce mobile technology by next week and plans to get effective mobile applications.

Justice Lokur said 24 hours after the launch of automatic e-mail information system, more than three lakh people (advocates and litigants) were able to access the mails.

The committee was planning to come out with a book that would explain the usage of these applications, he said.


The lawyers, litigants and judges will be able to know the status of the cases through these applications, the judge added.

Chief Justice of the Madras high court Indira Banerjee said there was not enough space in the high court record room to store documents and that dust has also become a major issue.

Noting that six lakh pages can be digitised in a day, she said if digitisation is implemented, all the judgements can be viewed at the click of a button.

The high court would try to dispose of by March 31, 2018 all cases pending for the last five year, Justice Banerjee said, adding there was some difficulty in their disposal in the lower courts because of lack of judges and staff. -- PTI

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[prasad1]

Great, does it mean that the case backlog will reduce?


[FONT=&quot]Apr, 05 2016[/FONT]



There are more than 20 million cases pending in the Indian districts courts; two-thirds are criminal cases and one in 10 have been pending for more than 10 years, our analysis of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG[1]) data has revealed. More revelations:

- There is one judge for every 73,000 people in India, seven times worse than the United States.
- On an average, 1,350 cases are pending with each judge, who clears 43 cases per month.
- At the rate cases are handled at the district courts, civil cases will never get cleared, and it will take more than 30 years to clear criminal cases.
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This is a looming crisis, and understanding where the problem lies is key to finding a solution.

Delhi has India’s worst people-to-judge ratio, other small states twice better than national average
Delhi stands out for having the worst population-to-judge ratio.

While the national average is 73,000 people to a judge, Delhi is almost seven times worse with about 500,000 people to a judge.

At the other end, smaller states and union territories (UTs) such as Chandigarh, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh have at least twice as many judges per person, compared to the national average.

http://www.firstpost.com/india/twen...rict-courts-a-crisis-is-revealed-2712890.html

 

[zebra16]

Great, does it mean that the case backlog will reduce?


Apr, 05 2016



There are more than 20 million cases pending in the Indian districts courts; two-thirds are criminal cases and one in 10 have been pending for more than 10 years, our analysis of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG[1]) data has revealed. More revelations:

- There is one judge for every 73,000 people in India, seven times worse than the United States.
- On an average, 1,350 cases are pending with each judge, who clears 43 cases per month.
- At the rate cases are handled at the district courts, civil cases will never get cleared, and it will take more than 30 years to clear criminal cases.
​

This is a looming crisis, and understanding where the problem lies is key to finding a solution.

Delhi has India’s worst people-to-judge ratio, other small states twice better than national average
Delhi stands out for having the worst population-to-judge ratio.

While the national average is 73,000 people to a judge, Delhi is almost seven times worse with about 500,000 people to a judge.

At the other end, smaller states and union territories (UTs) such as Chandigarh, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh have at least twice as many judges per person, compared to the national average.

http://www.firstpost.com/india/twen...rict-courts-a-crisis-is-revealed-2712890.html

I am skeptical of the ratio of number of judges to the population served. Theoretically there need not be any relation between the two. What is relevant is the number of litigants to the number of judges. In fact it is lazy journalism to say that India is worse off in 7:! ratio to US. I can give two glaring reasons for my skepticism right away.

The average family size in USA is 3.14 whereas it is 4.9 in India. Normally family members do not institute cases against each other, so family as a unit should be the criterion rather than the population. Applying this criterion, the ratio of judicial officers to the litigants come down to
4.49.

Second, and the most important, in USA, the Governments cannot appeal in Superior Courts against adverse judgements against the State by individuals. In India, one can theoretically appeal upto Supreme Court which normally provides for 3 appeal stages
and it is INCUMBENT upon every Government official to appeal to the Higher Courts in case of adverse judgement. It would be noteworthy in how many cases the Government is respondent or counter-party.