Digital amnesia: Is AI erasing our minds?

 Source: Frontline - The Hindu

As digital assistants remember more, humans risk forgetting what makes us human. Our growing addiction to digital memory aids chips away at core cognitive abilities, threatening to erode the foundation of human knowledge and cultural heritage. To read more please go to the following link:

https://frontline.thehindu.com/society/memory-human-ai-maths-digital-amnesia-technology-impact/article68561453.ece

Justice BR Gavai Inaugurates Country's First Digital Court For NI Act Cases In Kerala, Says Technology Makes Justice Easily Accessible

Source: Live Law

Supreme Court judge Justice BR Gavai was present at the Kerala High Court today to inaugurate various digital initiatives. Justice Gavai inaugurated the Country's first exclusive Digital Court for Negotiable Instruments Act Cases in Kollam. Other digital initiatives of the Kerala High Court are : Online Dispute Resolution System, Model Digital Court Room concept, Learning Management System of the Judicial Academy, Digital Library and Research Centre, restoration project of Ram Mohan Palace and the announcement of Digital District Courts. To read more please go to the following link:

https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/justice-br-gavai-inaugurates-countrys-first-digital-court-for-ni-act-cases-in-kerala-says-technology-makes-justice-easily-accessible-266944

Supreme Court gives nod for summons and legal notices to be sent via digital platforms

Source: Times Now News

-- Abhimanyu Sharma
Link to this article: https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/supreme-court-gives-nod-for-summons-and-legal-notices-to-be-sent-via-digital-platforms/619557

This order marks as a huge step towards digitisation of Indian legal proceedings, where notices and summons used to be sent either by mail or delivered in person.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

• Summons, notices can be sent via WhatsApp, Telegram, Email, fax
• Two blue ticks on WhatsApp to signify receipt of legal notice, summons
• Notice may be served by email, fax if WhatsApp user disables blue tick feature

In a move which will revolutionise the legal system in India, the Supreme Court has allowed serving of summons and legal notices through WhatsApp, Telegram and Email. The top court has held that two blue ticks on a legal notice or summon sent via WhatsApp would legally demonstrate under the Indian Evidence Act that the intended recipient has seen the document.

This order marks as a huge step towards digitisation of Indian legal proceedings, where notices and summons used to be sent either by mail or delivered in person. Incidentally, this order comes less than 6 months after the top court had allowed court hearings via videoconferencing across the country in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Attorney General KK Venugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had expressed reservations on serving summons via WhatsApp since it is a fully encrypted platform, and the two-tick feature can easily be disabled by the user.

CJI also observed that WhatsApp allows users to turn off the blue tick feature, which will not give a conclusive proof of the document being seen. To allay these concerns, the apex court also allowed the use of Email or Fax to serve the summons and left it for the case to case consideration if notices have been properly served or not.

The CJI led bench was hearing a suo moto case on the extension of limitation in cases due to lockdown and passed these orders in view of lockdown related constraints where travel to post offices, courts and banks is not always possible.