New Delhi : The Judgement Information System on Compact Disk (JUDIS CD-ROM) published by the National Informatics Centre was released on February 25, 1997, by the then Chief Justice of India Justice A M Ahmadi.
The JUDIS CD-ROM contains all reportable cases of Supreme Court of India from 1950 onwards. The entire Supreme Court's 30,000 decided and reportable cases are encapsulated in one CD-ROM. Apart from the complete text of the judgement for each case, the CD contains, Citation; Headnote ; Law Point involved, among other items. The CD is primarily designed to support young Advocates and Judges of Lower Courts who do not have access to a comprehensive caselaw library.
There are two versions of JUDIS CD-ROM i.e. Unix Version and Windows Version. The Unix version of CD-ROM serves the interests of Institutions where many people work on the server and the Windows Version is meant for individual Users. The cost of JUDIS CD-ROM is kept sufficiently low on a subscription basis to make it affordable for upcoming Advocates. To begin with it would be updated half-yearly. All Judges of High Courts and District Courts can easily access JUDIS CD-ROM as all 18 High Courts in the Country are already established with NIC computer cells. The combination of the experience of a Judge or a Lawyer and the User-friendly JUDIS CD-ROM will help in enhancing the proficiency of legal research. It is an enhancement to the already existing on-line legal databases COURTNIC and JUDIS of NIC.
Chief Justice of India, Justice AM Ahmadi releasing the JUDIS CD-ROM