Manu Instant

This feature allows the user to view the key information of the judgement without opening the case (based on which user may decide to view the full text or not).

• To see Manu Instant take the mouse over the search result; a blue colour double arrow icon will appear. Click on the icon to see the key information instantly.
• One can also take a print of the details as available on the Manu Instant window. (show on the image)

See All Manu Instant ? Allows you to view the key information of all the results displayed on the page.

Set Alert

Manupatra Alerts & Updates are available, to keep you on top of the latest happenings.

Manu Clip

Manu Clip icon is available on your personalized home page. Manu Clip allows you to monitor updates on Notifications and Judgments without actually searching for them. Your results are conveniently delivered to your personalized ?manu clip? page which is unique to your sign in.

• You can see all the judgments/notifications updates on one single page.
• Get the judgments/notifications instant on selected Subject/Ministry, no need to subscribe it separately.
• Manage the placement of Judgment/ Notifications as per your wish. You can also move/remove the tabs if you do not wish to see it.

To set your preferences

• Select Subject on which you wish to view the judgments
• Select Notification subject (ministry for which you wish to view the notifications)
• Select days (past number of days for which you wish to view the selected information)
• Click on Save Display Settings
• You can change your preferences any number of times
• Once you save your display settings the updates will be delivered to your Manuclip page as per your preferences.

Manupatra Desktop Alert

Manupatra Desktop Alert service is a complimentary service from Manupatra designed to help you stay connected with snapshots of legal events on all working days.

Features:

• Manupatra will alert you on important caselaws, notifications, Statutes, news, etc., through crisp summaries.
• When you click on Read, you would be able to read the full article/update, etc.
• New Information flows on to your desktop so you don?t have to access different sites to keep yourself updated.
• Does not interfere with your work. Desktop Alert remains in your Windows system tray. As soon as an alert is received, it ?pops up?.
• Zoom In and Zoom Out feature is available.

System Requirements:

Windows

• Intel? Pentium? III 1GHz or faster processor, 512MB of RAM
• Recommended: Pentium 4 2GHZ or faster, 1GB RAM
• Windows Vista? Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise including 64 bit editions, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2 and SP3, Windows XP SP2 and SP3,
• Windows 2000 SP4, Windows 2003 Server

Mac OS X/ Linux

• Intel Core? Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor; PowerPC? G4 1GHz or faster processor
• Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 or Linux
• 512MB of RAM

Free download available on our website

Search Alert Feature

Search Alert Feature Allows you to set alert for your Searches. To access your Search Alert Feature, go to Manage Search on My Home page

• Click on link for the Search Name you wish to set an alert for. Select the number of Expiry Days ( this is number of days for which you wish to receive Alerts for the subject search query). Click on [under Edit option]. Then click on to initiate the Alert.
• You can Disable the Alert at any point of time by clicking on box against the Search Name.
• You can set upto 10 alerts from your saved searches.

• In each alert you can add upto maximum of 2 emails separated by comma e.g. (abc@gmail.com,xyz@hotmail.com)
• Once the Alert is successfully Enabled, you will start receiving the Alerts on your registered email id as and when any judgment is uploaded on www.manupatra.com which contains your search query for which you have set the Alert. The email intimation will contain details of the document which you can access by Signing on to www.manupatra.com.

Chrome Alert

Desktop Alert on Chrome service is a complimentary service from Manupatra designed to help you stay connected with snapshots of legal events on all working days. It is a rich internet application that resides on your chrome browser and is managed by the server component of our platform.

Features:

• Manupatra will alert you on important Caselaws, Notifications, Statutes, News, etc., through crisp summaries.
• Does not interfere with your work. Alert remains in your Browser.

Over Ruled

Manupatra editors analyse and mark out the Judgements which have been Over Ruled.

• When researching on MANUPATRA Look out for red flag in Search Results.
• The RED Flag indicates OVERRULED. This means the case has been over ruled and is not good law.

Cited in Para

This feature enables the user to see the relevant paragraphs in various judgments, where the current case has been referred. Cited in Para link appears on the top of the Judgment.

Click on Cited in Para link appearing on top of the judgment (Vishaka and Ors. v. State of Rajasthan and Ors.). This link will only appear in judgments which have been referred in other judgments.

Citing Reference

Citing Reference describes the manner in which cases cited within the judgment are considered in terms of their relevancy or applicability. Cases referred are marked as

M-Para^®

m-Para? is a feature by which user can view the key paragraphs of any judgment, number of times the key paragraph/s has been referred in Supreme Court judgments, details of the SC judgments in which these paragraphs have been referred, along with the treatment given by Supreme Court to these key paragraphs.

How to use:

• Enter text to search in Manu search
• Open the judgment
• On the top right corner click on Important para icon will appear.
• There are 4 tabs,
  • Cites shows how many cases has been cited by this case and their treatment in future cases
  • Cited By shows, how many times this case has been cited by other judgments and their treatment in future cases
  • Cited in Para show the paragraphs where all this current cases has been cited.
  • m-Para^? Shows key paragraphs of a judgment on the basis of number of times the same has been referred in the other judgments. Click on the para, on the top frame it will highlight the important paragraph and after expanding the para in left frame click on any case name, it will highlight the same imp para appearing on the cases where its referred on the bottom frame.

Note: this is only available in SC cases

Taxonomy

Manupatra Taxonomy is a hierarchical structure which lists the topics and the sub topics under that. The aim is that each topic covered, broadly reflects the terms associated with it as a user might expect to find it in major textbooks. It will aid the user in choosing keywords consistently and appropriately.

The structure is created by identifying basic concepts and topics. These concepts and topics do not necessarily represent a complete subject area but define groupings of terms with similar characteristics. It is like a map which will help a user locate what they are looking for.

• First level displays the Subjects of taxonomy
• On click of + button it will list the Sub Topics, to directly go to the judgments under a Sub Topic click on > button.

Please Note:

Judgments appearing under each sub topic is not an exhaustive list on the topic. These are considered important by our editors.

To look for more judgments click on Cited in Manu. This will give you list of judgments where the subject judgment has been cited in, to help you identify similar cases.

Annotations & Footnotes

Judgements

Bare Acts on Manupatra include Brief Facts, Annotations and Foot notes to make your research exhaustive, relevant and efficient.

Brief Facts : This sign denotes the brief facts of the Central Act are covered which includes; statement of objective, date of assent, whether act is effective in full or partial, list of amending acts, any proposed amendment/s.

Annotations : This symbol denotes that the particular Central Act has Annotations, which are a brief note and explanation of each Section of the Act.

Foot Notes The amendments in the central acts are incorporated in the parent act by way of Foot Notes. This ensures that when you are reading the Act , you are reading the current version of the Act.

Manu Search

This interface gives you the single search box experience and assists you to search for key words, phrases, multiple phrases and more. You can perform Boolean search using Manu Search.

Simply type in your query and the search engine uses back end algorithms to give results based on relevancy. The results can be sorted on Decision Date; Title; Court Name and Relevance.

Citation Search

Manupatra has a powerful and exhaustive Citation search. While specifying all components of the citation, gets you unique result, inputting partial information of a citation also gets you results, which helps you identify the relevant document.

Click on Legal Search to access Citation Search.

Select from Indian Citation, International Citation

Select International citation to search for cases from US, UK, Srilanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Act Search

You can do Free Text search or search on Act number and title

• Select Act Search Radio Button
• Typing at least 3 characters of the Act name drop down will list the related acts, making the selection easier for you.
• Select the Act name from the drop down menu
• You may either search for query terms or select one of the options of Annex, Annexure, Appendix, Chapter, Order, Part, Schedule, Section.
• Click on search.

You can view the selected act by clicking on the icon View Selected Act

Example: In the following example we have searched for Section 2 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Act

Search by Act Number

Select the Search by Act No. radio button.

• Enter Act Number
• Select exact match or containing all
• Search

In first example we have selected Exact Match

In second example we have selected Containing All

Clicking on the result displays the Index of the Act.

In the Act Search the user has an option to search Order & Rule in combination as well. e.g. CPC order 7 Rule 11.

• Type 3 characters of the Act CPC, Code of Civil Procedure.
• Select the Act name from the drop down menu.
• In the provision select Order No. 7, a rule box will appear next to the text Box, enter rule no in that & click on search.

Search Results

• Filters : Filters on manupatra give you the ability to quickly focus on the documents that are most important to you. Using filters, you can narrow a search result list by jurisdiction key words, judges name, acts referred etc. When you run a search query, the results are automatically clustered under various heads such as Court, Document Type, Subject, Judge, Ministry, Period etc. making navigation easy for the user.
• Sort and re-sort results :You can Sort and re-sort results on Relevance, decision date, title of case and court name.
• Add to Session List allows to save documents for the current session to view, print or email directly from the session list
• Display results provides you with options to choose to view your result with Excerpts and Case Note
• Timeline Graph gives a pictorial depiction of the results, giving a quick preview of how the search results are spread across various years .
• Toggle view provides for viewing hit list and document in same pane, thus making browsing easier and faster.
• View document in new window allows ease in browsing by allowing you to open documents in different windows.
• Save Search allows you to save your searches for future reference. You can give the search result a name by which you may recognize the search at a future date.
  • You can MANAGE the saved searches by selecting the search you want to run from the list
  • You can delete or rename the selected search
• Search in results allows unlimited nesting option. You may narrow down the results by searching only in the results. Check the search in results button, input your query in the search box and click on Refine
• Authority Check provides for an interactive timeline which identifies later-citing cases. It makes it easy to pick out the best cases from a large collection of results by displaying cases in an intuitive graphical format. Vertical Axis displays list of Courts and the Horizontal Axis displays year range in which case has been further cited.
  • By rolling and holding mouse over a bubble, one can view extract of the case and no. of times it has been cited in future.
  • Citation Summary shows how many times case has been cited, in total and separately in Supreme Court and High Courts respectively

Cited in Para

Manu Cite

Citation Analysis

Authority Check Interactive Timeline

Timeline

Judge Analytics

Search Analytics

Print

One can take print of the Judgment, the PDF version of Judgment will appear and the option of Printing Judgment with case note, without Case made available.

Email

You can email the displayed document to your Friends/Team Members/Clients, subscribers and non Subscribers of Manupatra too.

Change the recipient email id if required and click Send. Alternately you may Email from the session list also.

Real Time Document Sharing