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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.
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