On Wednesday, While speaking at a virtual inauguration ceremony of the administrative block and various e-initiatives of Calcutta High Court, Chief Justice Of India, DY Chandrachud said that all lawyers should be allowed to work on their electronic gadgets like Phones and Laptops inside the Courtroom. 

While recalling the time when mobile phones were banned inside the Courtrooms he mentioned that now everyone is using mobile phones we must set up internet facilities within our courtrooms and have adequately maintained firewalls so that the facility is put to genuine and authorised use.

Justice further said that the personal motto for the adoption of technology is to meet the needs of tomorrow as well. 

"Rather than choosing a strategy where we design technology to respond to problems which have already arisen, we must embrace a strategy where we periodically revamp our existing systems by using technology. If we do this, we will be able to meet any challenge head-on regardless of whether the challenge is foreseen," said the CJI.

"If a litigant wants to check the status of their kids, for example, they will find it far easier to use the mobile app than the web browser. In these small ways, technology makes the justice system more accessible to all the strata of society," said Justice Chandrachud.

He also said and requested Calcutta High Court update its website as soon as possible.

CJI Chandrachud also asked the Calcutta High Court to start translating judgements into local languages.

Referring to the project launched by the Supreme Court, the CJI said: "I would earnestly appeal to the Calcutta High Court as well to launch upon this initiative which we have adopted by ensuring that your judgments are available in simple language to the people as they understand the language. This will truly ensure that we reach out to our citizens and then our processes become known to us citizens in words in the language and in a form which they can truly understand."

Furthermore, he also mentioned the e-SCR project launched by the ApexCourt which is an initiative to provide a digital version of judgments in the manner as they are reported in the official law report - 'Supreme Court Reports'.