INDIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Aditya Jalan, Urvashi Misra, Bhagya K. Yadav and Sushrut Garg, AZB & Partners
10.3 Future The Supreme Court has been increasingly deploy- ing AI tools for case management functions such as transcription of hearings, multilingual translation of judgments, defect detection in e-filing, and metadata extraction, in collaboration with NIC and IIT Madras. Similarly, various High Courts and District Courts have also adopted/ are in the process of deploying similar tools like Adalat.ai, and SUVAS (Supreme Court Vidhik Anuvaad Software). Human control over decision-making however remains the norm, with judicial policies explicitly prohibiting the use of AI for drafting judgments or deciding issues. We believe that this trend will continue in the future, with courts outsourcing mundane administrative/ techni- cal tasks to AI, allowing judicial officers the time and opportunity to focus on tasks requiring legal acumen and analysis.
cessing to analyse case facts and suggest relevant precedents, reducing judicial research time. Similarly, the Supreme Court Vidhik Anuvaad Software (SUVAS) translation tool has translated tens of thousands of Supreme Court judgments into Indian languages, expanding accessibility. In Kerala, AI-based speech- to-text systems for witness depositions have reduced trial time substantially by eliminating manual transcrip- tion. Legal practitioners have also adopted AI tools to assist with document management, initial review of information and other additional assistance during the course of their work. Given that there is no statutory recognition on such use of AI tools, the legal practi- tioners continue to be solely responsible for their work products.
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