Paperless Court
By Sreekala
@Sreekala (34312)
India
May 17, 2017 3:57am CST
The Prime Minister inaugurated a significant step being taken by the Supreme Court, it is from paper court to becoming a digital court.
I think this a great move by the Court and it can help retrieve data online. I have no idea how it will be successful but if it succeeds then we can be proud.
Indians – have you heard about this news?
Other members what is your opinion of changing digital from paper?
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5 responses
@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
17 May 17
This is good...finally some advancements in the courts
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
17 May 17
@Sreekala let see... What happens..
But i think that Most of the lawyers here in India are not familiar with conputers
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@prashu228 (37518)
• India
17 May 17
@amitkokiladitya lawyers should be trained first, then they should go for all these. Same happened with many other things. Like toilets in villages, demonetization , they miss the basics everywhere
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@topffer (42155)
• France
17 May 17
Both are co-existing in France since more than 10 years. In our judicial system, it would be impossible to be completely digital : 1) you can ask to a lawyer to fill digital forms and to send digital papers, but not to an ordinary citizen, and in some of our courts ordinary citizens do not need to be helped by a professional lawyer during a trial. 2) To be enforced a court decision needs to be notified, and it might be very difficult to prove a notification done by internet : it is always possible to forbid to a computer to send a receipt confirmation of an email, while it is easy to prove that a registered letter with an acknowledgement of receipt has been received.
And I will add that if these digital judgements are helpful for judges to give another judgement, they are usually not available to everyone through internet, for privacy reasons. Depending of the court, they can be available for professional lawyers, though. It is the case for most decisions of our administrative courts and of our Supreme Court.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
17 May 17
Reading your reply I understood it is not an easy task. I too don't have much knowledge how it works. I think the court itself take steps to digitize. It is written in news paper "The Integrated Case Management Information System will allow a litigant to digitally file a case and watch its progress on real time basis". There may be the case of privacy too.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
17 May 17
@Sreekala It will be easy to do only if the litigant is a professional. A basic citizen is at risk to be lost when he will have to fill digitally a form to start a trial. And everyone is not equipped for that : many old people have no internet here.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
19 May 17
I did read this news. This is a worthy step. It will take time for the law community to adopt this, but this will start making differences.
May be the Government also needs to share the statistics of this news move's usage on its portal.
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@prashu228 (37518)
• India
17 May 17
No use. Our government miss all the basics which are to be amended first. That's the problem.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
17 May 17
Read in the paper...Main thing is for the courts to function well
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