Legal and judicial systems

The contemporary world is living a communications revolution which has had the greatest impact on the evolution of information technology, where it helped to speed transmission of information, communication and the possibility of dealing directly through global and local information networks, and provide electronic services, and thus the transition to a new era of civilization which is the "Information Age".

Legal and judicial systems comes  at the top of the list of areas that could benefit from this spectacular progress resulting from the joint creativity of communications and information technology, which directly helps to achieve two main objectives:

1. Provide services for citizens of simple administrative processes and its related procedures, while ensuring confidentiality and privacy.

 2. Activating the Assistive devices of the judiciary and increase the efficiency of its work through its dealings with citizens and the parties to cases. The main philosophy upon which to build e-services operations in the area of legal and judicial work, is the view  to the Ministry of Justice and all its different devices as a source of services and the view to the citizens and government and private institutions and parties to cases, as clients wishing to take advantage of these services.

There is no doubt that this concept is a dramatic change in methods of justice operations, such as submitting lawsuits pleadings and the declarations of judicial papers and responding to some requests for the cases parties. This is accompanied by the emergence of urgent need to change the manner in which the devices of the ministry work at the present time, in addition to the calls for the introduction of new technology of the legislative and regulatory requirements.

The current documentary session is  adopting for pleadings a series of legal procedures that need to abide by when addressing the parties of the pleading, and these actions are still done manually in conventional manner through personal contact and rely on the human element to deliver advertisements and notifications, where it is  required to complete this work to meet the party personally or his procurator and his signature on receiving  a declaration or notification, and the absence of this communication or being  not completed legally is considered as justification  used for delaying motions in the courts, which directly affects the longevity of the case and the length of time in courts.
There is no doubt that reaching a more advanced methods rely on modern technology to capture advertising or notices given to the parties of cases, is of direct and effective effect to avoid delay consideration of the issues and thus achieve "justice" which time represents an essential element there. The modern technology cares to provide basic requirements to ensure the effective use of electronic medium of declarations, which is: The authenticity of the data and its adoption by the official exporters, and to ensure the confidentiality of data transmitted and secured against access by non-involved and the protection of the means of communication to ensure that the information transferred is not impacted by illegal interventions and data transfer  should represent a kind of authentication and to  be non-deniable  by the party who will be announced and should be  easily  accessed  to the data and knowledge and understanding by the parties concerned.

For using modern technological methods in the declaration, it would require the provision of infrastructure, of laws and legislation to adopt these methods and provide legal protection, and this requires:

1. Keep some of the legislation's legal development in the area of information and communications technology, which requires amending the legislation to conform to the requirements of the application of technology.

2. The dissemination of information and technological culture to the judicial bodies and the citizens and the parties to cases in general through holding seminars enlightening on the role of information technology in support of judicial systems.

3. Re-engineering of business processes and redesign and standardization of many of the models used to walk along with the requirements of providing electronic services.

4. Setting of security standards for the use of technology, where this is deemed an important approach to electronic service delivery systems, for providing systems and data security and ensures privacy of individuals.