On April 27, the Parliament adopted the Law on Amendments to Legislative Acts to Ensure the Phased Implementation of the Unified Judicial Information and Telecommunication System “Electronic Court”.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – May 6, 2021 – Technology
The topic of the electronic court is not new but rather inherited from the previous government of the current one. The strategy for reforming the judiciary, legal proceedings, and related legal institutions was approved by the Decree of the President of Ukraine on May 20, 2015.
Actually, the idea of creating an “Electronic Court” entered the legislation at the end of 2017 along with changes to the procedural legislation.
What are the Unified Judicial Information and Telecommunication System “Electronic Court” or, as it is also called, “Court in a Smartphone”?
In fact, this is the transfer of all processes of the court’s activity into electronic form. This includes document flow, consideration of court cases and preparation of operational and analytical reporting, provision of information assistance to judges. Simply put, it is the activity of the court in real-time.
The main advantage of “Court in a Smartphone” is a significant increase in the transparency of its activities and simplification of procedures for communication with the court, between citizens who are participants in court proceedings, and their representatives.
What are only these opportunities that the “Electronic Court” will open:
1. The court will be able to electronically send the parties summons and messages, procedural documents, and decisions on the case,
2. The parties will be able to remotely get acquainted with the materials of the court case, submit petitions, applications, pay court fees, receive materials and get acquainted with them, file appeals, cassation complaints, and the like.
Despite the information noise regarding the “invention of the bicycle”, the adopted Law does not introduce any revolutionary changes, but only introduces a phased implementation of the long-described “electronic court”.
The approach of the bill is rational since the phased introduction of the “court in a smartphone” will allow us to move step by step towards the full functioning of the system.
Today, some parts of the “Electronic Court” are already at the final stage of development without waiting for the readiness of other subsystems, the development of which is at the initial stage. It is really inappropriate to wait for the full-fledged readiness for operation of all the “court in a smartphone” modules since this will take more than one year and the functionality of the ready-made parts of the system, which may already work, will remain unused.
After all, the reason for the repeated postponement of the full launch of the “electronic court” system is predictable and commonplace – the lack of funds for its full implementation.
At the same time, the funds required to launch the “electronic court” continue to be spent on expenses inherent in the last century: envelopes, stamps, paper. as a result of which we have a vicious circle. We hope that the phased introduction of the electronic court will allow this vicious circle to break and move the issue towards the European standards of transparency and accessibility of the court for society.
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Source: Ukrgate
