Virtual Courtrooms: A New Era for the Indian Legal System

It is not only plaintiffs who need to wait for their cases to be heard in a court of law. Even attorneys deal with prolonged wait times to appear before the court. Though there are cause lists prepared for every court to show the sequence of cases for each day, there is no definite time allocated for the hearing. So when a specific case will come up is anybody’s guess, and lawyers spend a large part of their day waiting in court. But the good news is that India’s legal processes are changing. Propelled by the pandemic that demanded social...