The Nepali Judiciary - Supreme Court Of Nepal

for appropriate laws, buildings, locations, office and skilled employees, establishment of central
archive, development of electronic archiving system, and formulation of standards for construction
of archiving rooms and also recommended archiving of sentences and fines should also be placed
at the Supreme Court and the Appellate Court.
Joint-Registrar of the Supreme Court had been appointed for the purpose of management of
records and for the development of a scientific archiving system. 81 Pursuant to the decision of the
Committee, plan regarding archiving is currently under preparation. During the commencement of
the Plan, records that needed to be disposed pursuant to the rules have been initiated and with
assistance from various donor agencies works relating to case management is ongoing.
Employees involved in management and registration of records are provided with necessary
training. National Judicial Academy has been identifying training need regarding record
management. The Supreme Court, Appellate Court, Butwal and pilot courts have developed
software for management of records and are implementing accordingly. Records within the
Supreme Court are in the process of being managed through the process of microfilm.
3.3.14 To develop case management system to reduce delay and case congestion
The Plan proposed a number of activities for effective case management and reduction of case
congestion such as development of a policy, amendment in the court rules, development of
suitable computer program for introducing case tracking system, strengthening of intra-court
monitoring and supervision, introduction of a system of case assignment to justices in the
Appellate and Supreme Court, introduction of time management system and integrated filing
system for running cases.
The mid-term review carried out reviews of some of the activities and proposed for a constitution of
Committee for case management and development of standard for performance of work of the
courts and judges. It also proposed for an extensive development of case management system,
implementation of time management system, to hold interaction with the Bar and other concerned
stakeholders of the justice sector with regards to time management process, to orient judges and
employees regarding preparation and implementation of time management system, to initiate time
management system from the pilot courts, to determine duration of disposal of cases and to
evaluate the effectiveness of case management and time management system.
With the commencement of the Plan, a permanent Case Management Committee has been
prescribed in the Regulation. 82 A joint meeting of the High-Level Directive Committee and Plan
Implementation Committee had been organized which conducted a study on policies to be adopted
for case reduction and disposal of cases. Likewise, responsibility to frame appropriate policy for
disposal of cases exceeding five years was prescribed 83 wherein the policy has been submitted
and is being implemented. Currently, verification of hearing of cases is being carried out at the
Supreme Court and subsequently the cases are listed in the cause list, sections have been divided
pursuant to the age and nature of the case and internal inspection has been prioritized. Case
tracking system has been developed and implemented in the Supreme Court. A unified numbering
system on entry point in each court has been introduced. Similarly, a computer based system for
weekly and daily cause list; day-to-day status of the case presented for hearing, monthly report
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Pursuant to the decision made by the Plan Implementation Committee on 2065/5/24, Joint-Registrar Bipul Neupane
was nominated
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Provision of Case Management Committee was included by the 7 amendment of Supreme Court Regulation, 2049
and pursuant to amended Rule 13 d.1
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Joint-Registrar Til Prasad Shrestha was nominated
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