KATHMANDU, AUG 08 -
All verdicts are set to go online as the Supreme Court is digitising the final court orders. Verdicts issued by all the three tiers of the court—Supreme Court, Appellate Court and District Courts—will be at people’s fingertips in the short run.
As part of its annual information technology strategy the apex court’s Information Committee has started uploading electronic copies of the verdicts. As of now 14,472 of them collected from the courts across the country are being uploaded, according to SC Spokesperson Srikant Poudel.
Poudel, who is also the chief of the Information Technology Division of the court, said any verdict delivered by all courts can be accessed once they go online. Such information uploaded at the SC website (www.supremecourt.gov.np) will have the details of the staff who upload the verdicts along with his/her signatures.
He informed that SC officials are developing a unified software for the management of lawsuits, which will have all details of cases ranging from the date of registration to the verdicts. So far all the three tiers of the court had these data separately, but now they will be put together, he said, adding that the committee intends to complete uploading all the verdicts within the current fiscal year (2069/70 BS).
“The main purpose of digitising the verdicts is to make them easily accessible to the general public and that they can be downloaded by the concerned courts whenever necessary,” said Poudel. “This will cut down the travel costs for the general public who otherwise may have to come to the court to get a copy of the verdict”.
This, he said, will also help do away with the manual verdict updating system. “Only in certain instances in the past, for example if the Special Court issued a long verdict, we used get them either in a pen drive or a CD,” said Poudel. He, however, clarified that the service recipients will still have to travel to the concerned courts if they needed authenticated verdicts.
The SC spokesman also said that even the Judicial Council has asked the committee to prepare a list of verdicts passed by judges or justices, which will be useful to the Council in evaluating his/her performance.
The committee has made Unicode (Nepali font) mandatory in all the courts and has asked the registrar and division chiefs of the apex court along with chief judges and registrars of the appellate courts and judges and officials concerned of the district courts to provide necessary trainings to the staffs of the respective courts. In its effort to implement this decision, the committee has asked the various stakeholders such as the Office of the Attorney General and the Nepal Bar Association to give electronic copies of any written material in Unicode.
Meanwhile, the committee is mulling over launching tele-enquiry services to help all ascertain the status of their lawsuits.
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com/2012/08/08/top-story/all-court-verdicts-at-your-fingertips-soon/358428/
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