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Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, chairman of the pc committee of the Madras High Court, on Friday stated the establishment was totally outfitted to make digital courts a everlasting function, even after the specter of COVID-19 subsides, as really useful by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice.
He instructed committee member P. Wilson that strong infrastructure had already been put in place on the High Court with the steering of Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi. Concurring with the choose, he stated the Madras High Court had emerged as a pioneer within the conduct of proceedings by video-conference.
The choose instructed Mr. Wilson that the High Court, with the help of the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency, had bought 100 licences of Microsoft Teams software program. Each choose had been given a person licence for seamless conduct of proceedings. The remainder of the licences have been utilized by the Registry.
Till Monday, solely 19 judges used to conduct digital courts from their chambers within the High Court buildings. The relaxation have been conducting the courts from their residence places of work.
However, from Monday, 33 judges had begun to conduct the courts from the High Court itself. All infrastructure required for it had been put in place.
While most judges most well-liked to conduct the digital hearings from their chambers, some insisted on conducting the proceedings from the courtroom halls. Arrangements had been made for that within the courtroom halls too. Not simply admission instances but in addition ultimate hearings have been being performed by the digital courts and the verdicts have been being delivered as regular.
Individual licence
Similarly, all judicial officers within the State had additionally been given particular person licence for the software program and so they have been additionally conducting the courtroom proceedings seamlessly, he stated. The choose went on to state that even the Tamil Nadu Judicial Academy was taking digital courses and seminars from its places of work in Madurai, Chennai and Coimbatore.
Mr. Wilson stated the Parliamentary committee had taken observe of the nice strides made by Madras High Court, including that originally there was resistance to digital hearings from legal professionals “but now everyone wants virtual courts”.
“Yes, in fact, I was telling the Chief Justice that earlier we were trying to sell the concept of virtual courts to the lawyers but now we are doing the other way round,” Justice Sivagnanam remarked.
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