Cause Lists on Internet

Cause lists (http://causelists.nic.in ) are scheduling of cases to be heard by the courts on the following day. The Cause lists of Supreme Court and many other High Courts are available on NIC Web Servers. As the Supreme Court of India and all the 18 High Courts and their 10 Benches are fully computerised, all these courts generate Daily and Weekly Cause lists from the computer servers installed by NIC. The Cause list application is the backbone application of all courts as no court can function without that day¡¯s Cause list. Hence this has become real time critical application in all the Courts.

Immediately after generation of the Cause list most of the courts make copies from the stencils cut from the printers attached to the servers for generating thousands of copies running into a few lakhs of pages every day. Due to this reason the courts take a lot of time for generation and supply of the Cause lists to the advocates at their offices or residences. Usually the advocates receive the cyclostyled copies of a day¡¯s Cause List not before 8 PM. Some High Courts send the Cause lists data on floppy to the Printers for printing thousands of copies. This process costs each High Courts lakhs of Rupees every year.

Features

• It is available on Internet.
• Cause lists of all High Courts can be accessed at URL i.e. (http://causelists.nic.in)
• Advocates can generate their own Cause list consisting of his/her own cases.
• Retrieval through the name of either petitioner or respondent.
• Court wise list can be generated.
• Judge wise list can be prepared.
• Entire Cause list can be printed, if required
• Case number wise access is possible.  

Impact

• Advocates are able to receive the Cause lists almost immediately after courts hours.
• Advocate can generate their own Cause lists, which will contain only their cases, thus avoiding them to go through hundreds of pages to locate their cases.
• As the application is available on Internet, the litigant public can easily find out whether their cases are coming for hearing or not, without bothering the advocates.
• Some courts are considering reducing the generation of copies of Cause lists, as most of the advocates are dependent on the Internet version of Cause lists, thus the courts can save good amount of money on annual basis

NIC has made the Cause lists of the following High Courts on its Web servers apart from the Supreme Court of India:

1. Supreme Court of India
2. Allahabad                    3. Andhra Pradesh          4. Bombay
5. Calcutta                       6. Chattisgarh                 7. Chennai
8. Delhi                            9. Gujarat                       10. Guwahati
11. Himachal Pradesh    12. Jabalpur                    13. Jharkhand
14. Jammu & Kashmir    15. Jodhpur                     16. Karnataka
17. Kerala                       18. Patna                         19. Orissa
20. Punjab & Haryana    21. Sikkim                       22. Uttaranchal