FREE WIFI FOR LAWYERS AT COURTS, TRIBUNALS

FREE WIFI FACILITY FOR LAWYERS AT COURTS, TRIBUNALS

Duly registered advocates can be permitted to avail Wifi facility at Courts and Tribunals.  This will help them to track the cause list as well as carry their professional functions over the internet.  Since the permission to use the facility is granted to registered lawyers only, misuse of the facility can be traced easily.

Communication among the professionals inside the courts/tribunals premises will become easier through wifi facility.

contact details and email ids of advocates

Contact Details and Email id:-

If the contact details and email ids of advocates practising in a Region is published on websites of Associations, it will be useful for the clients as well as advocate fraternity.

On enrolment, every advocate must be asked to submit their email id (which shall be used exclusively for professional purpose).  While filing a case, mobile numbers are sought, similarly, email id should be sought.

All notices, including cause-list of cases can easily be forwarded to the registered email id of the advocate concerned.  This will save Time and paper.

Several jurisdictions and courts/tribunals can easily be accessed

Be it Trademarks registration works or National Green Tribunal or Debt Recovery Tribunal or IT Tribunal or Consumer Commissions or civil or criminal courts, advocate of one's choice can be selected through Online search and  brief of the case can be entrusted to him.

Once the selection and briefing process is done, follow-up of the case is easy!  Ease of operations through e-facilities such as e-mail, skype/google talk facilitates client/advocate to be in constant touch with each other.  

Follow-up of the case progress is easy and convenient to the parties concerned.

Geographical, communication, travel barriers can be eliminated

If appropriately utilised, internet is an effective way to break the geographical, communication and travel barriers.

One could render/receive appropriate legal advice without leaving their place of residence/work through internet.  A simple email, followed by a phone-call (if necessary) is the only requisite.

E-advice not only saves money (incurred on travel, sending documents by post, etc.,) and time, but also quick and speedy disposal of query.  If one is not satisfied with the e-advice by a particular attorney, he can go to other attorney by choosing through internet search.

On the part of advocates, e-advice is an effective way to handle their practice.  This also helps them to have a transparent communication records as well as rapo with the clients.

Good initiative by Delhi HC to abolish paper publication of Cause list

contents of Circular of Delhi HC is appended below.  Will Madras High Court also follow suit???!!!

"High Court of Delhi: New Delhi

CIRCULAR

As directed by Hon'ble the Chief Justice, on the recommendations of Hon'ble Computer Committee, printing of Cause List will be dispensed with w.e.f. 1 st August, 2014 as a measure to save paper and to protect the environment. The e-Cause Lists are available on the official website of this Court and are also being forwarded to the learned counsel through e-mail on a daily basis.
However, the court wise e-cause list has also been made available through application software through Local Area Network for the Court Masters/Readers who can take printouts of the Cause List as well."

Technology makes patta transfer easy - The Hindu

Technology makes patta transfer easy - The Hindu

With you or Without you!

An inevitable change has taken place and the advent of information technology has entered the legal arena, too. 

The paper-dependent legal process will get vanished in due course.

To be prepared for the advancement of technology in legal field, lawyers and supportive staff need to be trained with the necessary and primary tools of computer operations.

Nowadays, even a primary class student is also aware of 'Social networks, like., Face book, Twitter, WhatsApp messenger, etc.,'  Himachal Pradesh has fully implemented the E-stamp process.  Delhi Courts have commenced E-filing of petitions.  The progress of information technology implementation is yet to begin at Madras High Court.  Though, we boast that our software engineers are renowned throughout the globe, IT implementation in legal process is not at all worthy-mentioning.  To quote an example, Cause-lists of the High Court is view-able only after 2130 hours.  Even a simple application has to go through the hassles of passing through several babus (and tracing a single paper takes a whole working day, running behind individuals who never stick to their place of working!). Updates from District courts are non-existent. Police personnel control the process of summon services at Criminal courts which is the primary reason for delay in trials!  Unless an effective methodology is adopted to hasten the 'online filing' and transparent case status update is available, the burden of cases on judiciary will never get reduced.

Certain conservative (and ill-motive) individuals try to obstruct the technology development in the court-process as they fear that their dominance over lazy/lethargic work will come to an end!  But, the obstructions cannot sustain for long and the development process will take place either 'With you or Without you'!!!

In the long run, correct usage and effective implementation of technology policy will surely help the litigants as well as legal professionals.