Press - Electronic legal administration: From eJustice to European eJustice.
- On: 02.10.2008
- In: Ecole nationale des greffes
A conference on 2 October will bring together the webmasters of the main European legal sites together with members of the judiciary, linguists and IT specialists who are working to develop eJustice within the EU. The conference will focus on the problems that have to be solved if the new information technologies are to be used in cross-border proceedings.
Experts on legal cooperation, legal language and semantics, specialists in security and interoperability, and the developers of the websites of the European Court of Justice, the European judicial networks and the network of presiding judges of the supreme courts of the European Union will all share their experience in this field.
Other speakers will include representatives of the European Commission, the Secretary of State for Justice of Portugal and the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic.
This conference is a follow-up to three events on this subject organised by the previous presidencies at Bremen in February 2007, Lisbon in September 2007 and Portoroz, Slovenia in June 2008 as part of work carried out in Brussels over the past 18 months. The aim of the 'eJustice' initiative, which was launched under the German Presidency, is to develop the use of the new information technologies in the field of cross-border Justice. This initiative should give EU citizens on-line access to a certain amount of legal information and even, in the longer term, ensure the dematerialisation of cross-border legal proceedings. Current work includes setting up an 'eJustice' portal that will act as a one-stop point of access to justice at European level.
The aim of the Dijon conference is to identify the best practices: technical options and structures put into place to create the sites that are now recognised as successful. The conference will feed into and shape work on eJustice at European level.
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- Updated: 24.09.2008
