1982

Traditional tools like published reports, digests, manuals, indexers, and notes used for case preparation, opinion or research are cumbersome, time-consuming and inadequate for law professionals. It is becoming extremely difficult to maintain a huge and expensive library. Delay and/or incomplete data is inherent in the published media, as it is virtually impossible to manually interlink volumes of case law and statute law together with other material like articles, commentaries by authors in textbooks etc.
As the global community is moving into the electronic age, where effectiveness and efficiency is measured by the rapidity and accuracy of information transmission and retrieval, it has become imperative for the Honorable Judges, advocates and teachers also to make use of this information technology and help the legal environment keep pace with the social milieu. Also, as the Indian legal fraternity is providing professional services to a new generation of international businessmen, multi-national corporations and others, they have no choice but to keep pace with the information technology age and provide those services using tools which increase accuracy and reduce the man hours spent in mechanical searches. Very simply put, the time has come for the Indian legal fraternity to "polish its act and hone its tools."

2009

The global community has moved into the electronic age, the litmus test of development is the extant of use of information technology. Globalization has resulted in borderless communication, tourism, sports, movement of services and goods and crimes. E-Judiciary for every country is imperative as global judiciary will be soon be in place. Time to create, disseminate and use global judgment and statute data base in a structured format and not just wild word search...