A circular issued by Madras high court registrar General P Kalaiyarasan, as agreed to by all the bar associations in the city, said that lawyers should now file their cases without folding the case papers in half along the longer side, reported The Hindu.

The so-called ‘flat filing system’ was a “wonderful system that will help judges in knowing the day-to-day development of the case by glancing through the first few pages itself”, Isaac Mohanlal, president of the Madurai Bench of the Madras high court Bar Association (MMBA) told the paper.

The court reportedly also introduced an obligation to translate all vernacular documents into English, which Mohanlal was less enthusiastic about as adding to cost and time, according to the report. [Hat-tip @khushant4 on Twitter]