Abstract: A significant backlog of unresolved cases currently plagues the Indian legal system, mostly as a result of ineffective case management procedures and a lack of established procedures for setting case priorities. The scheduling and prioritization procedure is now handled manually by court employees, who rely on their own experience and subjective judgment. In addition to wasting important time and money, this manual intervention causes delays and dealing with inconsistencies urgent issues. when an automated solution is desperately needed to expedite the prioritization process and guarantee that important cases receive prompt attention while the number of pending cases keeps growing. The creation of a software-based tool that automates the process of prioritizing and ranking court cases is suggested in this paper: the Judicial Case Priority Management System. To give each case a priority ranking, the algorithm makes use of key legal characteristics as well as portions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Case information, IPC sections, and the accompanying priority scores are kept in a special database. The algorithm at the heart of the system determines each case's severity and urgency, resulting in a final priority score on a scale from 0 to 10. High-profile or urgent instances that require immediate care are indicated by a score of 0, whereas less urgent cases are indicated by a score of 10. To determine the priority score, the algorithm takes into account a number of variables, including the type of violation, related IPC sections, prior case history, and other contextual information. In order to ensure that courts can handle high-priority cases quickly, the calculated scores are saved in the database and utilized to dynamically categorize cases. By minimizing human participation and increasing speed, this structured prioritizing lowers the possibility of bias and error in the case scheduling process.
Keywords: Judicial case management, Priority Scoring, Legal Automation, Court Efficiency, Indian Penal Code.
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DOI:
10.17148/IJARCCE.2025.14640
