JusticeChandrachud will be remembered for modernising the Courts functions

JusticeDr D Y Chandrachud’s judgments are in the public domain, and the people willscrutinize them when necessary. However, his administrative reforms are momentous. He iscredited with introducing live-streaming of court hearings. As a result, most of the High Courts and even the District Judiciary have followed suit.Now, anybody from any part of the country can watch the court proceedings and the advocates argue their cases. Because of the hybrid hearings, any advocate can argue many cases from any part of the country. There is no need for him/her to rush to the Supreme Court at the time of the hearings. An Advocate can handle many cases by switching with the click of a computer button, which was almostunthinkable before Justice Chandrachud introduced them.E-filingof the cases and curing of defects have become very easy and time savers for the Advocates. Now the case files can be inspected from anywhere. Cause lists of casesare easily available in the emails of the Advocates.  Only ten years ago, it used to be said in a lightervein that going through the thick bundles of cause lists was no less than doingthe research. digitalisation has saved crores of trees and a massive amount of money from the courts across the country.Whatis most remarkable is that the concerned Advocate is informed through SCI aboutthe case number and its listing date in the Courts, which used to be a Herculeantask only a few years ago. Justice Chandrachud will go down in history as agreat reformer in the courts’ functioning, making them paperless and more people-friendly.  I hope that his legacy will be taken forwardby his successors by introducing more modern technology like Artificial intelligence(AI).