SUPACE

SUPACE

Subject : Governance

Context : SUPACE, a composite AI-assisted tool, can be used to push up efficiency of legal researchers and judges; it will read case files, extract relevant information, draft case documents and manage apportioning of work.

Concept :

• SUPACE is short for Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Court’s Efficiency.
• Earlier, the E-Courts Project was conceptualised on the basis of “National Policy and Action Plan for Implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Indian Judiciary – 2005” submitted by the e-Committee of the Supreme Court.

About SUPACE:

• It is a tool that collects relevant facts and laws and makes them available to a judge.
• It is not designed to take decisions, but only to process facts and to make them available to judges looking for an input for a decision.
• Initially, it will be used on an experimental basis by the judges of Bombay and Delhi High Courts who deal with criminal matters.

Significance:

• It will produce results customized to the need of the case and the way the judge thinks.
• This will be time saving. It will help the judiciary and the court in reducing delays and pendency of cases.
• AI will present a more streamlined, cost effective and time bound means to the fundamental right of access to justice.
• It will make the service delivery mechanism transparent and cost-efficient.

SUVAS ( ‘Supreme Court VidhikAnuvaad Software’)

• It is a machine-assisted translation tool trained by Artificial Intelligence.
• This Tool is specially designed for   Judicial   Domain and at present, has the capacity and capability of translating English Judicial documents, Orders, or Judgments into nine vernacular language scripts and vice versa.
• This is the first step towards the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in the Judicial Domain.
• Currently, SUVAS software is being used for translating Supreme Court judgments into nine vernacular languages — Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu which will be further expanded to other regional languages too.
• Right now cases related to Labour, Rent Act, Land Acquisition and Requisition, Service, Compensation, Criminal, Family Law, Ordinary Civil, Personal Law, Religious and Charitable Endowments, Simple money and Mortgage, Eviction under the Public Premises (Eviction) Act, Land Laws and Agriculture Tenancies and Consumer Protection are being translated.