Gujarat High Court To Continue With Live Streaming Post Resumption of Physical Hearings

The High Court of Gujarat has decided to continue with live streaming of Court Proceedings even after switching to physical functioning of Court from August 17.

Initially, live streaming began from 26 October, 2020 of the Chief Justice's Video Conferencing Court on an experimental basis.

The Court then went on to formally launch live streaming of other Benches of the High Court on July 17, 2021 with the High Court of Gujarat (Live Streaming of Court Proceedings) Rules, 2021 coming into effect on the same day.

The Information Technology Cell of the High Court has now implemented an in-house technical solution for live streaming of the Court Proceedings using computer systems, web-cameras, digital audio interface and public address systems.

Now, all Courts of the High Court are equipped with microphones and speakers for the Bench as well as the Advocates, facilitating easier listening for all present in the Court.

"This setup will gradually continue to be improved based on the experience to be gained in working with the same and the inputs/suggestions of the users", adds the Press Release.

"With this implementation, the High Court of Gujarat has again kept up with expectations of the stakeholders, by continuing to uphold the realization of the Open Court concept through live streaming also during the physical functioning of the Court", states the Release .

The official YouTube Channel of the High Court now has a subscriber base of 75000 subscribers and total cumulative views of 53 lacs.

Read Press Release here.