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AI judges, verdicts via chat app: Brave new world of China's digital courts

China is encouraging digitisation to streamline case-handling within its sprawling court system using cyberspace and technologies like blockchain and cloud computing

Govt to set up 1,023 special courts for expediting over 160,000 POCSO cases

Each of these special courts are expected to dispose of at least 165 such case per year, said a proposal by the Department of Justice under Union Law Ministry

From cell towers to voluntary retirement, here're the key court orders

The Madras High Court ruled that "till a positive finding is given in this regard, cellphone towers cannot be prevented to be installed on mere apprehensions"

Judicial reforms: Why lower courts should be the first in the line

India has over 600 district courts

Court denounces tendency to implicate distant kins in dowry cases

A woman had filed a complaint in 2006 accusing her husband and his family of demanding dowry

Letters: Courts, a ray of hope

The point made by Somasekhar Sundaresan in his piece, "Rule by men -not the rule - of law" (February 23), about governments ceding ground to the courts is a real issue now. It is not just that governments of the day have failed to address major issues affecting society, communities and individuals; there has also been a collective failure of the governance system, with lawmakers not working and understanding the impact of the laws they are adopting; of government officials failing to implement laws and policies already in existence; of the police failing to apply force without being perceived as unfair or biased.Examples abound, one of them being the way India's environment and labour laws have been flouted. Forest land is regularly usurped for industrial, housing and transport projects without due legal process or compensating for forest cover. The same is the case for coastal area restrictions and tribal land. Most major industrial plants now employ employees on a contract or tempora