BANGALORE: Presiding officers of the judiciary in other countries and States have evinced keen interest in the information technology (IT) initiatives of the Karnataka High Court.

A few days ago, the acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana visited the Karnataka High Court and was briefed on the computerisation programmes in courts. Judicial officers of countries such as Ghana, China, Trinidad, Tobago and Singapore have visited Bangalore for gathering information on IT initiatives.

S.R. Bannurmath, Judge of the Karnataka High Court and chairman of the Committee on Computers, told The Hindu on Saturday that a comprehensive programme had been launched to upgrade and modernise the court at all levels.

Simplifying procedures

More IT programmes were in the offing to not only lessen the burden of cases, but also help and simplify legal procedures for litigants and lawyers, he said.

The High Court would soon ensure that a computerised "cause list" of daily cases was made available on the premises of the Advocates' Association, Mr. Bannurmath said.

He said that the daily cause list of the High Court had already been computerised and it was available on the High Court website htpp://Karnatakajudiciary.

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Efforts were also being made to put on the net the cause list of subordinate courts.

The cause list of the City Civil Court, Rural District Court, Small Causes Court, CMM and Traffic Court, all in Bangalore and Mysore courts, had been put on the net. But, owing to technical problem, the cause list of these courts could not be accessed on the net from February 21, 2006.

It would be uplinked again once the newly upgraded servers were installed in the High Court.

Judgments

Justice Bannurmath said a committee had been constituted to sift through the judgments of the High Court, and select the most important among them so that they could be put on the net. Only judgments of the larger bench, full court and division bench would initially be put on the net, he said.

Work was almost over on upgrading the server so that it could support the uplinking of judgments and these would soon be on the net.

Classification

As of now, some of the judgments had been classified according to the month and listed in PDF format in the High Court website.

However, these judgments had been reported in the Indian Law Reports (ILR), Karnataka series, Justice Bannurmath added.

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