Resistance To The Idea Of Virtual Courts Is Misplaced
4 years, 10 months ago

Resistance To The Idea Of Virtual Courts Is Misplaced

Live Law  

Recently, the Bar Council of India decided to hold a 'countrywide consultation' with lawyers and litigants on resumption of regular hearing in all courts'. The idea by Prof. Richard Susskind, IT Adviser to Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in his book "Online Courts and the Future of Justice", is revolutionary. The online courts would also immensely aid physically disabled lawyers. To address the concerns expressed over the impact of Online Courts on livelihood of the lawyers, it is compelling to state that if we understand and accept that online courts serve better justice by increasing access to the courts and also by opening the courts for many young lawyers who cannot maintain a life in big cities, we are to accept the second concern of the profession being hijacked, as meritless. This does not mean that embracing the culture of online courts would pave way for exclusion of digitally illiterate lawyers.

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Audible, Visible, My Lord?
3 years, 2 months ago

Audible, Visible, My Lord?

Live Law  

'Unprecedented times call for unprecedented interventions', remarked a learned Judge of the Kerala High Court while exercising the extraordinary jurisdiction to stall recovery proceedings initiated by banks against a mortagor. Introduction of virtual courts and online updations, though under compelling circumstances of the pandemic, elevated the concept of rendering justice more meaningfully, by giving litigants, access to court proceedings. Virtual …

Live-streaming of court proceedings on the brink of becoming a reality: SC judge
3 years, 11 months ago

Live-streaming of court proceedings on the brink of becoming a reality: SC judge

The Hindu  

Supreme Court judge and chairperson of its e-committee, Justice D.Y. The judge said the idea behind virtual court system was not to replace physical courts, but, instead, to show the “flexibility” of the Indian judicial system to ensure that access to justice was not denied even during the hardest of times. Justice Chandrachud emphasised that the judiciary’s shift to virtual …

'A Court Is More A Service Than A Place': Parliament Standing Committee On Personnel, Public Grievances Recommends Continuation Of Virtual Courts Post Covid Period [Read Report]
4 years, 6 months ago

'A Court Is More A Service Than A Place': Parliament Standing Committee On Personnel, Public Grievances Recommends Continuation Of Virtual Courts Post Covid Period [Read Report]

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"A court is more a service than a place," remarked the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances in its report supporting continuation of Virtual Courts for some identified categories, even after Covid-19 pandemic is over. After holding extensive meetings with Secretaries of Departments of Justice and Legal Affairs, Secretary General of the Supreme Court and representatives of the Bar …

Law Ministry panel bats for more virtual courts
4 years, 6 months ago

Law Ministry panel bats for more virtual courts

The Hindu  

Parliamentary Panel on Law and Justice headed by BJP MP Bhupender Yadav has recommended continuation of virtual courts even in a post-COVID scenario but also sounded a word of caution that infrastructure needs to be upgraded especially in district courts to implement this. In its report “Functioning of the Virtual Courts/ Courts Proceedings through Video-Conferencing”, the panel has argued that …

From Physical Courts To Virtual Courts: A Way Forward
4 years, 10 months ago

From Physical Courts To Virtual Courts: A Way Forward

Live Law  

Traditionally speaking, courts in India have, for time immemorial, functioned as 'physical courts'. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an extraordinary and unprecedented crisis that, has affected the world at large, and has also posed many challenges on the ability of the judiciary to administer and effectively dispense justice. In the wake of this pandemic, courts across the country have …

'Virtual Courts Not Antithetical To Open Court System': Supreme Court
4 years, 10 months ago

'Virtual Courts Not Antithetical To Open Court System': Supreme Court

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"The time has come when the Judicial organ of the State as whole must evolve into the age of technology and in such view, it is imperative that all the stakeholders must welcome, accept and act as per the necessities of a fair adjudicatory process before the Virtual Court system. However, in the new age where technology has tapped almost …

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