A recent news report indicated that the NITI Aayog is working on a proposal to introduce performance reviews for judges across the country.

Imagine a scenario where a judge is armed with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence tools to handle each case on his/her docket.

We often hear of courts in India listing around 100 cases a day for hearing, how often do we hear of a court listing over 500 cases a day?

In a 2018 judgment with far-reaching repercussions for litigants and lawyers, a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court in Asian Resurfacing of Road Agency Private Limited v Central Bureau of Investigation (2018 SCC Online 310) has restricted the duration of stays in both criminal as well as civil trials to six months.

In a speech on July 14, 2018, months before his swearing in as the Chief Justice of India, then-Justice Ranjan Gogoi spoke of the need of the judiciary to improve the efficiency on a day-to-day basis, and emphasised the need to adopt tools for that purpose.

Supreme Court pronounced close to 1,000 judgments in cases of varied subject matters between January and November 2018.

How much of a vacation do our judges need? This question comes up fairly frequently these days, particularly when there is conversations about the delays in deciding cases and the pending 3crore cases in our courts.