Legal Information System: A Model Framework for Indian High Courts

Abstract

The present legal information system in India courts is working in its traditional environment when compared with its western counter parts. The demand of hour is to equip these courts with technology based legal information system. In this paper, a practical systems analysis approach is described for the planning, development and implementation of the information technology required to have a sustainable legal information system in a developing country like India. Considerations involved to compile and distribute the country’s governing laws in electronic form are described .Based on a reasonable set of assumptions and general requirements for the courts of India in particular and for developing countries in general, a blue print of model legal information system is then presented suitable for present Indian courts in organizing the knowledge, and disseminating it with a press of a button across the length and breadth of globe. By using the approach suggested in this paper, every developing country can fully evaluate the cost-benefit tradeoffs, as well as all other tradeoffs, in determining the most appropriate information technology to use for the creation, compilation, and distribution of its laws in electronic form. Thus bringing efficiency in the dispensation of justice