LIMBS

LEGAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT & BRIEFING SYSTEM (LIMBS)

www.limbs.gov.in 

Background: 

Legal Information Management & Briefing System (LIMBS) is a web based portal developed by Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law & Justice for monitoring and handling of various court cases of Govt. Departments and Ministries. Joint Secretary (Revenue), Department of Revenue is the Nodal Officer of DoR for LIMBS. Commissioner, Directorate of Legal Affairs (DLA) has been nominated as the project coordinator for LIMBS in CBIC. Cases pertaining to Supreme Court are uploaded & updated on LIMBS by DLA. Cases pertaining to High Court and Tribunals are being uploaded by the concerned Commissionerate's.

Instructions for uploading and updating cases on LIMBS have been issued from DLA to field formation from time to time. 

Objective: 

To create a National Portal of all cases pending in various courts/ Tribunals as a part of the e-Governance initiative. Once completed, information relating to all court/ tribunal cases being handled by the various Ministries/ Departments and other organs of the Government of India will be available on a single web-based online application. 

In the line with Digital India Mission and as a part of its mandate to conduct Govt. litigation, the Department of Legal Affairs (Ministry of Law & Justice) has in association with National Informatics Centre implemented the Legal Information Management and Briefing System (LIMBS), a web based application to monitor Govt. Litigation in various Courts and Tribunals in a proactive, transparent and effective manner. 

It is an efforts made by all the Ministries/Departments in bringing all the litigation matters on a digital platform. With the concerted efforts from all the User Ministries/Departments, LIMBS as on date has a unified database of 8.26 lakh court cases (including archive cases), 14204 registered users and more than 21000 advocates. 

The entry of cases on the LIMBS portal is a continuous and dynamic process and maintaining the factual accuracy of the data from time to time is of prime importance. It is emphasized that LIMBS application can be best utilized only when all the Ministries/Departments enter all court cases in which they are a party with complete information in the relevant fields. Therefore, the exercise of entry of all the court cases by the concerned users of Ministry/Department needs to be completed in time bound manner and periodically reviewed by nodal officers as requested earlier in past.