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2 Jus Corpus L.J. 681 (2021-2022)
E-Courts Project and Reforms in Judiciary

handle is hein.journals/juscrp2 and id is 1176 raw text is: 12 Jus Corpus Law Journal Open Access Law Journal - Copyright © 2021 - ISSN 2582-7820 Editor-in-Chief - Prof. (Dr.) Rhishikesh Dave; Publisher - Ayush Pandey This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. E-Courts Project and reforms in Judiciary Adishree Ghorpadea aSavitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India Received 25 October 2021; Accepted 17 November 2021; Published 20 November 2021 In today's world of advancing technology, maximum fields, from a local level to national level are tying to adopt paper to paperless approach, then why not judiciay? Indian Judiday is a guardian of the Constitution and also a protector of individuals' fundamental rights. To provide fair and impartial justice to its people, the judiciay has to adapt to technological changes. With the rise of the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court passed directions to all courts in the county to make extensive use of video conferencing for judidcial proceedngs. The virtual court is a notion that eliminates the presence of litigants or lawyers in the court and provides a platform for adjudication of cases online. The E -courts Mission Mode Project was conceptualized with a vision to transform the Indian Judiciary with the use of technology mainy artificial intelligence. For this, there is a need to be set up electronic infrastructure and other prerequisites. Changing times call for some more reforms in the judiciary. These changes must be brought on an urgent basis as justice delayed is justice compromised. Keywords: digital technology, virtual hearing e-courts, judiciay, fundamental rights. INTRODUCTION There is no better test of the excellence of a government than the efficiency of its judicial system - Lord Bryce' 1 James Bryce, Modern Democracies (Vol 2, New York Macmillan 1921) 681