Thread by @Hareshraichura

Thread on "Citing Reportable and Unreportable Decisions of Superior Courts after explosion of Internet Law Reporting Software which give a unique citation reference to each judgement."

1) There was a time when lawyers used to cite SCR a govt publication in arguments.

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2/ Then came a period when lawyers begin to cite SCC (And AIR) a private publication in arguments in courts.

Then many other publications came, like Judgement Today, SCALE, and several other weekly and daily reports came and they used to be cited..

Then internet came.
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3/ After internet came, many software's like Manupatra etc came.

Lawyers begin to take print outs and the print outs were cited as judgements.

Many times, these print outs used to print name of lawyer who is licensed to use this law software.

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4/ Then a hundred more law softwares have come..

Each one is giving their own unique identification number to each judgement..

Now how do we cite these judgements in court?

We have to give...

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5/ title of the judgement, case number and date of judgement and we have to give copy of print out. There will be no cross reference to other reports to check authenticity of print out.

This problem is seen recently because lawyers are using different softwares.

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6/ It will take lot of time to other side advocate to check or verify authenticity of judgement printout given by other-side.

Because he may be using other software were paragraph numbers or page numbers may be different

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