The Kerala High Court will soon launch an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to generate case files based on voice recordings of litigants. .To a question posed by Bar & Bench on what the next initiative of the Court would be, the High Court's Information Technology (IT) Section replied that its in-house team is developing an AI-based system to generate case-files."Next step will be artificial intelligence. System will generate case file-based on voice from litigants," the IT Section said. .This would be only one of the many IT initiatives that have been launched at the Kerala High Court in the recent past. As far back as November 2022, an AI tool called SUVAS was launched for translating judgments and orders of the district courts from English to Malayalam and for translating vernacular judgments and documents of district courts into English.By February this year, the Kerala High Court had published two of its judgments in Malayalam..Kerala High Court to launch Unique Neutral Citation, AI tool for English-Malayalam translation of district court judgments/ documents.It was then revealed via an official press release dated July 7 that the High Court and district courts have employed Anuvadini, an AI tool developed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) of the Ministry of Education, to translate judgments of the High Court and district courts to Malayalam.Using this tool, over 317 High Court judgments and over 5,136 district court judgments have already been translated from English to Malayalam and uploaded on the websites of the respective courts..This initiative was carried out under the leadership and guidance of Justice A Muhamed Mustaque, Chairman of the Computerisation Committee, as well as Justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V and Kauser Edappagath, who are members of the Artificial Intelligence Assisted Legal Translation Advisory Committee.The press release also stated that there was a proposal to share translated versions of judgments with the Legal Service Authority for imparting legal education and awareness to various government departments and other stakeholders, including litigants..Recently, the High Court also introduced machine/automated scrutiny of bail applications before they are listed for hearing. The machine scrutiny would check for defects before a bail plea is listed before the Court for hearing.The High Court's IT Section also confirmed to Bar & Bench that the Kerala High Court was the first in the country to adopt such a system.
The Kerala High Court will soon launch an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to generate case files based on voice recordings of litigants. .To a question posed by Bar & Bench on what the next initiative of the Court would be, the High Court's Information Technology (IT) Section replied that its in-house team is developing an AI-based system to generate case-files."Next step will be artificial intelligence. System will generate case file-based on voice from litigants," the IT Section said. .This would be only one of the many IT initiatives that have been launched at the Kerala High Court in the recent past. As far back as November 2022, an AI tool called SUVAS was launched for translating judgments and orders of the district courts from English to Malayalam and for translating vernacular judgments and documents of district courts into English.By February this year, the Kerala High Court had published two of its judgments in Malayalam..Kerala High Court to launch Unique Neutral Citation, AI tool for English-Malayalam translation of district court judgments/ documents.It was then revealed via an official press release dated July 7 that the High Court and district courts have employed Anuvadini, an AI tool developed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) of the Ministry of Education, to translate judgments of the High Court and district courts to Malayalam.Using this tool, over 317 High Court judgments and over 5,136 district court judgments have already been translated from English to Malayalam and uploaded on the websites of the respective courts..This initiative was carried out under the leadership and guidance of Justice A Muhamed Mustaque, Chairman of the Computerisation Committee, as well as Justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V and Kauser Edappagath, who are members of the Artificial Intelligence Assisted Legal Translation Advisory Committee.The press release also stated that there was a proposal to share translated versions of judgments with the Legal Service Authority for imparting legal education and awareness to various government departments and other stakeholders, including litigants..Recently, the High Court also introduced machine/automated scrutiny of bail applications before they are listed for hearing. The machine scrutiny would check for defects before a bail plea is listed before the Court for hearing.The High Court's IT Section also confirmed to Bar & Bench that the Kerala High Court was the first in the country to adopt such a system.
