Virtual Hearing Platform: The Use of Technology to Ensure Access to Justice
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Virtual Hearing Platform: The Use of
Technology to Ensure Access to Justice
SUBHAM CHATTERJEEI
ABSTRACT
The legal scenario across the globe has witnessed a revolutionary change. With the parties
moving to the court to get justice, to the alternative dispute resolution techniques such as
arbitration, mediation, negotiation and conciliation being adopted, the 21-century tech-
oriented era demands digitization of the legal field also. This proposition gives birth to the
concept of 'Online Dispute Resolution more popularly has been known as the Virtual
Hearing Platform. Online Dispute Resolution is the process of resolving disputes among
the disputing parties using e-techniques. Bygone are the days when disputes mandated the
parties to move to the court to secure justice. This technique is popularly used in the
corporate field to resolve multi-billion dollar deals and disputes among the disputing
parties. The modern day court does not only witness civil and criminal matters, but also a
great deal of corporate and commercial cases too. With transnational business taking place
globally across the world, it becomes nearly impossible for the business houses to even have
their disputes via inperson. This mode of access to justice is very popular in foreign
countries as compared to India. The present paper seeks to analyze the use of the Online
Dispute Resolution Mechanism as a tool to gain access to justice.
Keywords: Online Dispute Resolution, Justice, Disputes, e-courts, legal, Virtual Hearing
Platforms
I. INTRODUCTION
As a response to the outbreak of Covid-19 and the condition precedent that justice system should
not be halted at any cost, Virtual Hearing Room (hereinafter referred as 'VHR) has emerged
as a reaction to the physical courtroom hearing. It's not new for the use of technology in the
field of law as Online Dispute Resolution is emerging as a new genre of law to deal with the
cases. However, this Covid-19 has ensured the use of technology in the field of law to maintain
the continuity of Access to Justice to all classes of people in the society. A Virtual Hearing
Platform can be defined as a field of technology law where the disputing parties, their counsels
as well as the Judges hear the claims of the disputed parties, the counsels argue virtually and
every stage of courtroom procedure is done virtually, be it submission of evidence, recording
1 Author is a LL.M. student at Dept. of Law, Brainware University, Kolkata, India.
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