Glitches such as internet speed and power disruptions will disrupt proceedings for lawyers in semi-urban and rural areas. The problem will be acute for subordinate courts where hard copies of documents and material objects have to be marked and examined,” said senior advocate and president of Tamil Nadu AdvocatesAssociation (TNAA) S Prabakaran
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Glitch-ridden hearings irk lawyers who want court closed instead
May 3, 2020, 04:26 IST
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Chennai: Facing a choice between the total
closure of the
Madras high courtor truncated operation with 100% video-conferencing proceedings due to the Covid-19 lockdown, a large section of
lawyers have risen in support of the closure.
The court’s proposal to allow limited benches to function through video-conferencing only has not gone down well with many who say the judiciary’s infrastructure is not equipped to adopt the fully-digital functioning.
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Instead of doling out ‘half-justice’, it would be better to treat the lost days as extended summer holidays and try to make up for them after the Covid-19 scare is put to rest, the lawyers said.
“Glitches such as internet speed and power disruptions will disrupt proceedings for lawyers in semi-urban and rural areas. The problem will be acute for subordinate courts where hard copies of documents and material objects have to be marked and examined,” said senior advocate and president of Tamil Nadu
AdvocatesAssociation (TNAA) S Prabakaran.
“Two or three hearings I participated in took a lot of time to commence. One hearing which was supposed to happen at 11am could only be commenced at 2.30pm,” said senior advocate E Om Prakash. With a proper system, not less than 50 cases can be heard every day, he added.
Advocate G Sankaran said the primary cause for delay is that the judges do not have access to hard copies of the pleadings. Either they must be provided a separate monitor to access the affidavits and other case documents or hard copies of the same must be made available, he suggested.
“There is no acknowledgment for the filings made. In many cases, there is no response from the registry on the status of the filings, leaving advocates in the dark about the hearing,” he added.
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