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.