His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the UAE, and Chairman of Dubai’s Supreme Legislation Committee (SLC), today attended the Legislation and Leading Ci
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Rahul Matthan
Reform efforts to digitize our judicial system should focus on appropriate flows of data for justice delivery
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Last week, the eCourts Committee released its Digital Courts Vision and Roadmap, charting the path for digital reform of India’s judicial sector. I read the 86-page report with interest, given the extent to which it would likely impact my profession. But as much as I appreciate the vision, I believe it could have gone further.
It is important to recognize that the work of this committee is actually the third phase of judicial system reform in India and as such, it was constrained by what had already been done before. The focus in Phase I was on taking the judiciary digital as a result, no effort was made to provide digital services to citizens. Phase II focused on litigants, creating case information systems through which court filings could be accessed and systems