Optimising Justice: Evaluating the Impact of Court Management Systems on Judicial Delay and Case Backlogs in India

Abstract

The Indian justice delivery system faces ongoing problems with judicial delay, which creates case backlogs despite constitutional guarantees that require courts to deliver justice without delay. The rising number of pending cases throughout the court system has created critical problems that affect both judicial access and institutional performance, and public trust in the legal system. The research paper investigates how court management systems function to reduce judicial delays through their management operations and actual use of digital case management and court monitoring technologies. The research paper employs a doctrinal and analytical framework that uses secondary sources and empirical research to demonstrate that technological innovations have increased administrative transparency and coordination but failed to achieve lasting decreases in case backlogs. The study shows that judicial efficiency will be improved only through the development of combined reforms, which need better human resource management, better procedural practices, and better mechanisms to hold institutions accountable.