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Welcome to the Judicial Data Collaborative Definitions Project!

If you are here, it is because you have agreed to help drive this project and a member of the Editorial team has shared login credentials with you to access this page. In order to get started, we have created a short editing guide to help. If you (or an interested colleague!) don't have login credentials and would like to contribute to this project, please fill out this google form or write to smita@dakshindia.org

The project has three aligned objectives:

• First, to create a public good for those interested in the justice system in India in the form of a research wiki that connects (i) formal institutions, (ii) actors, (iii) core concepts relating to their functioning, (iv) various metrics used to assess their performance and (v) demonstrates how challenging concepts have been measured. The wiki brings out linkages between official literature, public databases, and current research that analyses these facets. At present, the justice system is being observed through courts, police and prisons.
• Second, to bring out some of the gaps, overlaps and challenges in understanding and consuming publicly available data released by Indian justice institutions.
• Third, to act as a platform that allows contributors to discuss, suggest and agree on actionable ways that official "data creators" may adapt current practices to be more transparent, accessible and responsible to the public. These suggestions will not only be geared towards researchers but also technologists focused on interoperability of systems & developing tools that consume and add value to justice data.

Example articles

We've created a small set of sample articles to demonstrate the structure of potential pages and value to students, researchers, journalists, practicing lawyers and those involved in building technology for the justice system in India. These adhere to a common format and include:

Adjournment	Advocate	Affidavit	Agreement (Competition Law)	Anticipatory Bail
Appellate Tribunal of Electricity	Appellate Tribunal of Fortified Property (SAFEMA)	Armed Forces Tribunal	Arrear	Arrest
Backlog	Bail	Bench	Beyond reasonable doubt	Bihar Real Estate Appellate Tribunal
Cartel	Case Clearance Rate	Case Information System (CIS)	Case Pending per Judge	Causelist
Caveat	Central Administrative Tribunal	Central Bureau of Investigation	Charge-Sheet	Cognizance
Commercial Court	Complaint	Compounding	Condonation of Delay	Consumer court
Contempt	Convict	Court complex	Court Establishment	Court manager
Court-annexed Arbitration Centre	Courts	Criminal Leave Petitions	Criminal Trial	Custodial Violence
Custody	Custom, Excise, and Service Tax AppellateTribunal (CESTAT)	Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal	Debt Recovery Tribunal	Decree
Delegated Legislation	Detainee/Detenu	Digital Courts	Discharge	Dominant Position
Ex-Ante Ex-Post	Family court	Fast Track Court	Fast Track Special Court	First Information Report (FIR)
Furlough	Goa State Administrative Tribunal	Government Litigation	Gram Nyayalaya	Haryana Real Estate Appellate Tribunal
Hearing	Human Rights Commission	Hypothecation	ICJS	Income Tax Appellate Tribunal
Industrial Tribunal	Injunction	Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal	Interlocutory application	Investigating Officer
Investigation	Judge	Judge to Population ratio	Judgement	Judicial Custody
Judicial Workload	Jurisdiction	Karnataka Real Estate Appellate Tribunal	Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal	Kerala State Administrative Tribunal
Legal Services Authorities	Lok adalat	Madhya Pradesh Real Estate Appellate Tribunal	Maharashtra State Administrative Tribunal	National Company Law Appellate Tribunal
National Company Law Tribunal	National Green Tribunal	Natural justice	Notary	Open Court
Order	Panchanama	Paperless Court	Parole	Patent
Pendency	Per Capita spend on Judiciary	Perjury	Petitioner	Plea Bargain
Pledge	Police Case Diary	Police Complaints Authority (PCA)	Police Custody	Police Station
Prayer	Pre-instituted mediation	Predatory Pricing	Presumption of Innocence	Preventive Detention
Prison	Probation	Prosecution	Protest Petition	Public Prosecutor
Rajasthan Real Estate Appellate Tribunal	Real Estate Appellate Tribunal	Recusal	Remand	Remission
Repeal	Respondent	Roster	Securities Appellate Tribunal	Sentence
Special courts	State Administrative Tribunal	Subjudice	Summary Case	Summon Case
Tamil Nadu Real Estate Appellate Tribunal	Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal	Test Identification Parade	Tie-in agreement	Timeframe for Judicial Proceeding
Transfer Petition	Tribunals	Undertrials	Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Appellate Tribunal	Vakalatnama
Victim	Victim Compensation	Virtual Courts	Virtual Hearing	Warrant Case
West Bengal State Administrative tribunal	Will	Witness	Witness Protection	Writ Petition

This table of live definitions was updated on Monday, 8th April 2024. For definitions added to the wiki but not yet reflected in the table, please refer to the consolidated list at wiki uploads to explore the wiki further.