India, March 25 -- E-filing, a process aimed at digitising and simplifying court proceedings, has become a major hurdle for litigants and lawyers practicing in Family Court in Bandra. Over 100 advocates have addressed a letter to the chief justice of Bombay high court, raising the problems they have been facing with the digitisation process, and the resultant delays in court proceedings.

In February last year, HT had reported about the challenges faced by litigants and lawyers due to the mandatory e-filing process. The lawyers had raised issues like frequent server downtimes, website malfunctions, challenges in the litigants' oath-taking process and poor bandwidth, which resulted in delays.

"The process has turned worse now," said advoc...