To foster ease of land property registration, govt plans to link e-courts with land recordsThe pilot project on linking of e-Court with land records and registration database has been successfully completed in Maharashtra along wi...
SC's e-committee releases draft proposal for phase III of e-Courts project, seeks feedbackThe Supreme Court's e-committee, headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, comprises experts including judicial, legal and information technology ...
Gujarat High Court begins live streaming of proceedings on trial basisThe order said proceedings of the Division Bench No 1 [First Court] of the High Court will be telecast live, purely on an experimental basi...
Supreme Court panel builds digital module, to speed up disposal of biz disputesAs India emerges out of Covid-19 crisis, Supreme Court's E-committee, in sync with government's initiative on ease of doing business, has d...
Supreme Court tries out software for e-filing of casesThough there have been consistent demands to telecast court proceedings for awhile now and a court ruling agreeing to such a move, the proc...
Justice delivery system: Reasons for no headway in reformsAlmost 50 lakh cases are pending in the high courts. Given these figures, there is undoubtedly a crying need for reforms in the justice del...
Mechanism to assess judges' work soon: CJI Dipak MisraAt present, judicial officers retire at the age of 58 years, HC judges at 62 years and SC judges at 65 years.
Will artificial intelligence cure trial courts of 100-year-old pendency headache?The first Law Commission, set up in 1834 under Lord T B Macaulay, did stupendous work towards codification of civil and criminal laws.
1,000 lower courts not updating case data on national gridIn order to bring transparency in judicial functions and reduce pendency, the government with the help of the Supreme Court had started onl...
CJI TS Thakur drops sitting SC judge from e-panelUnder Justice Lokur, the national e-Committee had made significant contributions to make courts litigant friendly and lower the cost of tri...
Unique IDs to track work of 17,000 judgesThe National Informatics Centre (NIC) is currently rolling out the upgraded software, the case information system (CIS) 2.0 version, for th...
Cases in which next hearing not yet fixed jump to over 33 lakhThese unlisted cases amount to 14.98 per cent of the total nearly 3 crore cases pending in Indian courts, right from the Supreme Court to t...
2.18 cr cases pending in courts till May 31, reveals Supreme CourtThe National Judicial Data Grid statistics revealed that at the end of April 30, there were 27.4 lakh undated cases pending in various cour...
Over 31 lakh cases await next date of hearing in Indian courtsAt a recent meeting of eCommittee, Himachal Pradesh High Court had suggested introduction of some sort of incentive for reducing the number...
Over 12% of 2.18 crore cases pending filed by women, senior citizensThe Supreme Court ecommittee has said that 6,96,704 cases have been filed by senior citizens in various courts.
Trials through video to help government save Rs 100 crore a yearChhattisgarh HC had chosen the highest number of locations — 115 — for installation of video conferencing facilities, of which installation...
Centre working on Justice system reflecting values enshrined in Constitution: Law Minister"This is not only a human rights issue for those who are lodged behind bars, but also a matter of great concern for our judicial system," h...