High Court launches MyCourt app to facilitate judicial services

The Online Caselist, Judicial Monitoring Dashboard, and Amar Adalat (MyCourt) app have been launched to facilitate the judicial services and information delivery process of the High Court and Lower Courts of the country.

It will transform existing judicial services into digital services and enhance the ICT-friendly skills of judges and judicial staff, states a press release.

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP, inaugurated the online services at the launching ceremony organized by the Law and Justice Division and UNDP Bangladesh with the technical assistance from a2i at a hotel in the capital on Saturday.

On the other hand, Secretary of Law and Justice Division Md. Golam Sarwar and Brahmanbaria District and Sessions Judge Begum Sharmin Nigar was present as the special guest.

“We have prepared a plan to facilitate the best use of technology in the law and justice and healthcare sectors in the current financial year, and today we started our journey with the launch of three digital services,” State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP, said.

“We are working to bring the judicial system of the whole country into the hands of the people in a short time and cost by making it completely technology dependent. The e-Judiciary project is in its final stages to facilitate the work of judges and lawyers,” Palak added.

About two thousand courtrooms will be digitized under this technology-based modern project. There will be an audio recording pool system as well as a virtual tribunal.

Besides, Palak mentioned that 14 central jails and 64 trial rooms at the district level will be added. “Our own virtual meeting platform ‘Boithok’ will be used to communicate all the information about the judicial system in a secure system. We are enacting the Data Protection Act to protect all types of court and business transaction data in the country,” Palak further mentioned.

Law Secretary Md. Golam Sarwar said the Law and Justice Division has been working for a long time to ensure judicial services for all through digitization. As part of this, the online Causelist (Judicial Monitoring Dashboard) and Amar Adalat (MyCourt) mobile app were launched on Saturday to take the judicial process of Bangladesh forward.

The Department of Law and Justice is currently working on the implementation of the e-Judiciary project as a sustainable and important project. This will ensure an effective and accountable justice system.

The list of cases pending in the court on a particular working day will be available to the public or anyone involved in the trial by browsing the causelist.judiciary.org.bd website and using the Amar Adalat (MyCourt) mobile app.

Aspirants will be able to know the latest order, next date, and status of their case by selecting the concerned division, name, then the district name, and lastly, the concerned court on the website. The Judicial Monitoring Dashboard will provide all types of data related to cases pending and disposed of in lower courts, including the present status of the courts, the nature of the proceedings, and various judicial statistics.