The Delhi high court (DHC) went Android last week with an app designed to download its display board, case status, and case history tabs in a one-click functionality on users’ Android mobile phones.
DHC practicing advocate and Amity Delhi 2011 graduate Abhimanyu Chopra, an associate at Gaggar & Associates, is the technical hand behind the app.
Chopra said: “I was asked by the judges to make an app in August 2013. Something on similar terms like that of [the Supreme Court]. I went a step ahead and made an app with specific tabs that lawyers usually use for HC Services, like the cause list, display board, orders by date, by judges, by registrars etc.”
The biggest utility of the app, he felt, was in minimising the pain of opening a browser and then going through all the steps that follow to access any of the tabs on the DHC’s website.
Legally India asked the techy lawyer some questions by email to find out more about the app-story.
How is the app better than that designed for the SC?
The DHC app also provides and highlights a new feature which most lawyers are unaware of – the “Case history” tab. This tab is a boon to lawyers as this gives them the dates , court details and whatever happened since the inception of a particular case.
So let us take an example. For a case filed in the year 2000, with the advocates involved changing multiple times, the app provides when the vakalatnama was filed, when the certified copy was applied for, even the date of filing of the process fee of service.
Litigants and lawyers can also keep tab of processes and inform the judges of when something was scheduled to happen and when it actually did, since practically many adjournments happen when litigants haven’t served the copies or filed the process fees for their cases.
