Searching case status made easy: E-court

The court management can be made easy and more effective with the help of technological advancements. The major drawback of traditional court management is difficulty in case search. Searching an old case or related document manually is a very time consuming and ineffective. The case records are stored physically in the form of piles of papers in the traditional court management approach. Searching through the piles of papers is a tedious work. Maintaining the index for such a huge data is also difficult. It may take few minutes to an hour to search a particular document as such.

Similarly if a litigant wants to know his / her case status, he / she needs to visit the court, file a request and wait for court officials to search their case status. There appear a number of cases in the court everyday and the record keeps on increasing. Therefore an effective way is required to sort the case records for making the search easy.

The e-court technology provides the ultimate solution to this problem. With the help of the e-court software all the information related to any case is stored electronically on the server which can be easily accessed anytime from anywhere. The paperwork can be completely replaced by the electronic data which is easy to store and share. The current status of the case can be updated online which can be accessed by the litigant without requiring to visit the court or undergoing the application process. A unique case number is allotted to every case whenever a case is filed. With the help of e-court technology the litigant can use this case number to search his/her case status. There is also a provision for searching the case status with petitioner’s or respondent’s name. For more precise search, case number can be used as it is unique to every case. Along with ease in access to case information, this facility also creates transparency in the court management.                     

The user interface provided in the e-court software developed by the Proud Technologies is easy to use. The litigant can login into his / her registered account to know his / her case status or can simply access the case status with the help of the case number. This makes the case management effective contributing to the effectiveness of overall court management.

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