Various courts, on their websites, provide for accessing Case Status on the basis of certain parameters. However, barring for the district courts and some high courts which use the e-Courts website, all other HCs and the SC have their unique interface. Which of these is most accessible and why? Delhi HC’s system is perhaps one of the more advanced, providing for all details of applications (including whether pending or disposed), easy accessibility of orders, and info regarding who filed what. E-courts on the other hand does not provide the orders - mostly because the clerks at lower courts cannot be bothered to update case details regularly and efficiently. It is a very backward system. Which other court provides a sufficiently advanced interface which provides all the required info and is effective? What are the shortcomings in the CS interfaces you regularly interact with? Do lawyers in lower courts find e-Courts efficient? Do you think the government should adopt blockchain and technology and create a uniform system for getting case statuses?
Not a litigator here but just want to say, inadvertently, the best, most informative system is the Supreme Court's system for how much case-related information it carries on a single page. You practically don't need anything else and can find out everything about the case, down to the case number of the impugned and so on. But smoothest system may be the DHC's system, tracking cases is simple. Now, for the award of the worst case management system, the winner is: Allahabad HC. Just try doing the whole captcha thing at every single step of the research. Incredibly frustrating. (The number of times you have to do captcha-based verification should be one criteria, if anyone is undertaking research on this topic).
I am not sure employing blockchain or any such thing will immediately help the system. The SC E-Committee is working hard to put systems in place, demerits or merits aside. Proper equipment, internet connectivity, ensuring that orders are uploaded are basics that no technology itself can improve. Some will has to come from within for judges.
One thing I would like to see some improvement in is the way case categorisations work. Each HC has their own system of categorising cases, (and then into abbreviations, but let's think about the larger problem) and the SC has its own method of doing this. Its pretty difficult to track down if you are researching across courts (as opposed to being a practitioner at a single court) because say enforcement petitions or criminal appeals are tagged in one way at the DHC and another at the Punjab & Haryana HC. Hope others recognise what I am referring to. Happy to hear their thoughts.
I am not sure employing blockchain or any such thing will immediately help the system. The SC E-Committee is working hard to put systems in place, demerits or merits aside. Proper equipment, internet connectivity, ensuring that orders are uploaded are basics that no technology itself can improve. Some will has to come from within for judges.
One thing I would like to see some improvement in is the way case categorisations work. Each HC has their own system of categorising cases, (and then into abbreviations, but let's think about the larger problem) and the SC has its own method of doing this. Its pretty difficult to track down if you are researching across courts (as opposed to being a practitioner at a single court) because say enforcement petitions or criminal appeals are tagged in one way at the DHC and another at the Punjab & Haryana HC. Hope others recognise what I am referring to. Happy to hear their thoughts.