When an undertrial gets produced in court thrice a year it costs the government Rs 1,000. But now, undertrials need not be produced in courts as trial court proceedings can go ahead through video conferencing, which will help the government save Rs 100 crores per year. The facility is being installe...

All 15,000 subordinate courts will have their judgments digitised, with new judgments to be uploaded by 6pm on the day that it is handed down, law ministry sources told the Times of India.

The Karnataka high court will introduce wireless internet in six to seven months, reported the Deccan Herald . The advocates association had made the request for a court-based wireless internet network to the registrar general, who have now started the tendering process to find a provider of the int...

Chandigarh pink slips 79 kin-counsel : The Chandigarh administration has shown the door to 79 empanelled advocates who were the kin of advocate generals, a judge, and union law minister Kapil Sibal. Now around 30 counsel are left on the UT administration’s panel [ Hindustan Times ] Madras HC on SMS ...

Every HC bench strength to grow by 25% : The central government has decided to increase the judges’ strength of each high court in India by 25 per cent and has invited proposals from all chief justices on additional facilities concerning courtroom, quarters and support staff for the enhanced number ...

The Delhi high court will take a further step to going paperless after the inauguration of its e-filing facility at 5pm today, in its company and tax jurisdictions. “Thereafter in both jurisdictions the e-filing of appeals, petitions, counter affidavits, rejoinder affidavits, applications and all do...

Legally India speaks to techy lawyer and DHC Android app developer Abhimanyu Chopra.

Delhi’s Saket district court took the lead among Indian district courts on 31 July in allowing emailed service of process.

Android friendly SCI: The Supreme Court of India has released an Android smartphone app to view a replica of the Supreme’s Court’s case display board. The display board in the SC indicates the item numbers of matters being heard across all courtrooms at any given point of time. It’s pretty basic, bu...

The DoJ project to computerise 14,249 courts is 85 per cent complete, according to an RTI response.

The Delhi high court has launched an online payment system for litigants and lawyers to pay court fees.

The system will allow court fee stamps to be bought online.

The high court’s computer committee will now examine also rolling it out to Delhi’s district courts. [The Hindu]

Delhi High Court has become the first court in India aiming to go paper-less today with the adoption of a pilot e-court project for all dealings in the court of Justice S Ravindra Bhat.