Advocates Devashish Bharuka and Aakarshan Aditya were declared winner and runner-up respectively at the hackathon organised by the Supreme Court on January 7 to improve the top court's registry processes..Bharuka and Aditya are both advocates-on-record..The Supreme Court of India had in December, through an official notification, invited suggestions from stakeholders and duty-holders for the first-of-its-kind hackathon to refine and improve the existing processes of filing and listing of cases in the Court Registry.The suggestions and ideas were to be within the ambit of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013.Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud had directed that such an event be organised under the supervision of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, to identify innovative ideas and to explore practical propositions for refining and bringing in efficiency in the existing process followed by the Registry.The stakeholders that participated in the event included members of the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association, law clerks-cum-research assistants, members of the Supreme Court e-committee and the registry of the Supreme Court.After the responses were received, a screening-cum-selection committee scrutinised, and selected the eighteen best suggestions and innovative ideas for presentation before and evaluation by judges on Saturday, January 7..The presentations were held in Supreme Court Annexe building, and ranged from suggestions on e-filing, use of artificial intelligence (AI), simplifying categorisation of cases, use of QR codes for better processing and scrutiny of files, among others. .[Go through the winning presentations]
Advocates Devashish Bharuka and Aakarshan Aditya were declared winner and runner-up respectively at the hackathon organised by the Supreme Court on January 7 to improve the top court's registry processes..Bharuka and Aditya are both advocates-on-record..The Supreme Court of India had in December, through an official notification, invited suggestions from stakeholders and duty-holders for the first-of-its-kind hackathon to refine and improve the existing processes of filing and listing of cases in the Court Registry.The suggestions and ideas were to be within the ambit of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013.Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud had directed that such an event be organised under the supervision of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, to identify innovative ideas and to explore practical propositions for refining and bringing in efficiency in the existing process followed by the Registry.The stakeholders that participated in the event included members of the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association, law clerks-cum-research assistants, members of the Supreme Court e-committee and the registry of the Supreme Court.After the responses were received, a screening-cum-selection committee scrutinised, and selected the eighteen best suggestions and innovative ideas for presentation before and evaluation by judges on Saturday, January 7..The presentations were held in Supreme Court Annexe building, and ranged from suggestions on e-filing, use of artificial intelligence (AI), simplifying categorisation of cases, use of QR codes for better processing and scrutiny of files, among others. .[Go through the winning presentations]