The Supreme Court (Supreme Court) has previously pointed out several shortcomings of the e-case, therefore administrative cases are still considered in paper form in the courts, the Administrative District Court informed.
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However, a large part of the documents are uploaded to the court information system and made available to participants in the administrative process in electronic form. Thus, the participants in the administrative process can choose the most convenient way to get acquainted with the case materials.
Representatives of the court are currently actively participating in events organized by the Court Administration aimed at identifying the needs of the court and improving the functionality of the electronic case.
The Court hopes that the further process of implementing the electronic case will remedy the shortcomings identified so far and make it more user-friendly. The court is ready to conduct records with the help of an e-case as soon as the appropriate functionality of the e-case is ensured.
In its turn, the Riga Regional Court pointed out that with the development of digitalisation, a gradual successful transition to a more convenient and efficient litigation process is possible in the future. The first month of e-file use has shown that this is an important step in the development of the justice system and requires some effort from each user to ensure that the implementation process runs as smoothly as possible during the transition period.
In the court environment, the challenges of e-litigation are first encountered in the courts of first instance, however, the appellate court has also encountered technical problems during this time, such as organizing remote litigation, but solutions have been sought and found promptly. Problem reports have been received from the parties regarding difficult access to the case materials in order to get acquainted with them in electronic format.
It has already been reported that on December 1 last year, the gradual introduction of e-files in the legal proceedings began. The transition from judicial to fully digital work will take place gradually by 1 December 2023.
For a transitional period of two years, derogations from the basic rules on the digitization of cases laid down in procedural law are allowed, for example in the event of technical obstacles or a large volume of documents.
The e-case is one of the digital transformation initiatives, which in several stages envisages the transition to an electronic investigation and prosecution process, first of all in the first phase of e-prosecution, by creating a single electronic prosecution process and exchanging information between courts, prosecutors, information systems of judicial authorities.
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