Digital solutions to justice, the way ahead
Promoting Digital justice - grapestock×
Covid has brought digital court hearings centrestage. This can extend to arbitration, conciliation and out-of-court settlements
Over nine months into the Covid pandemic, the inequity of its impact is undeniable. Rising uncertainty led to a large number of people losing lives, jobs, facing contract violations, and being unable to pay back loans.
As of September 2020, the judiciary of the country had to deal with almost 4 crore pending cases, with a 3.6 per cent rise between February 1 and August 31 in the Supreme Court, a rise of 12.4 per cent since January 29 until September 20 in the High Courts, and a 6.6 per cent increase in the district and subordinate courts in the same period.