Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud launched the electronic Supreme Court Reports (e-SCR) project to provide free access to its about 34,000 judgements to lawyers, law students and the common public.
The e-SCR project is an initiative to provide the digital version of the apex court’s judgments in the manner as they are reported in the official law report – ‘Supreme Court Reports’. These verdicts will be available on the apex court website, its mobile app and on the judgment portal of the National Judicial Data Grid.
CJI Chandrachud said, “This is a free service available for lawyers across the country. Young juniors do not have to pay. There is an elastic search facility. We are improving upon the search engine by incorporating the following, distinguished and incorporated judgements in a few weeks.”
He further said, “We are also introducing neutral citations. Delhi and Kerala High Court already have it.” A committee comprising three judges – Justice Rajiv Shakdher of the Delhi High Court, Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan of the Kerala High Court and Justice Suraj Govindraj of the Karnataka High Court – has been constituted to work on the process of neutral citations.
With the help of the National Informatics Centre, the Supreme Court has developed a search engine comprising elastic search technique in the database of e-SCR and the search facility in e-SCR provides for free text search, search within search, case type and case year search, judge search, year and volume search and bench strength search options.
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