Unique QR Codes In Judgments/ Orders, Advocate Information Management System: New Initiatives By Madras High Court

Advocate Information and Management System (AIMS), a citizen-centric service, will enable the advocates in mapping their mobile numbers with legacy cases based on their enrolment numbers and the appearance of cases. By virtue of this system in place from 15^th November, advocates can log in with their enrollment numbers and add those cases for which they will be appearing to the List. In turn, the court officials would verify and approve a case for which a particular advocate has mapped themselves. Once approved, they will receive the case information via SMS and VC Link for Court proceedings.

Document Pagination module, which is an online facility to ensure the chronological paging of the paper book of each petition filed in the Principal Seat of Madras High Court. It gives information about the last pagination number and the next pagination number of a case through a web interface. It ensures that advocates/parties in persons and judges work with the same pagination.

As a right step in complying with the 'Rights of Persons With Disabilities, Act', 2016, the Madras High Court has also installed an easy-to-use Braille Printer that has the capacity to print 350 braille pages per hour. For now, the registry has installed the printer within the premises of Principal Seat which can be utilised from 15th November.

As envisioned by Justice DY Chandrachud, Supreme Court E-Committee Chairman, the High Court has taken steps to incorporate unique QR Codes to authenticate the Order/ Judgments printed from the official website of the High Court. One of the pioneers in imprinting watermarks on orders and judgments, the new feature provided by the High Court will enable the readers to scan the QR Code, upon which they will be instantly taken to the web copy of Orders/Judgments hosted in the Website.

Madras High Court's Case Information System(HC-CIS) has been integrated with the state's Court Cases Monitoring System( CCMS) for the purpose of sharing court data and documents related to the State Government. Madras High Court's Computer Monitoring Committee and NIC have joined hands to bring forth such integration for digitizing the data. The integration will help the state government to monitor the cases where it's a party more closely and file necessary counters and rejoinders on time. It will also enable the state government to be notified about the case they are involved in on the hearing dates of those respective cases.