2nd International Conference on
ICT Solutions for Justice
(Skopje,
September 24th, 2009)
The Aim of the Conference
National e-justice systems are an important power for national economy and civil society. The globalization of the economy, social trends and other factors present new demands on judiciaries internationally, while at the same time technological and communicational advances offer opportunities to judicial policy makers to make justice more accessible, transparent and effective.
International terrorism, illegal immigration, rise in violent crimes, and the “globalisation” of organized crime are significant examples of the new challenges for criminal justice, while the increasing number of civil cases and criminal cases in the national judicial systems constitutes a major challenge for the judicial organisations. ICT deployment in European civil and criminal judicial systems is a key element to face these challenges and to improve significantly the administration of justice. The rapid development of technologies opens new opportunities, both during criminal investigations and trials and in civil litigations, Justice of Peace, labour, bankruptcy, thanks to the increased capabilities to exchange and use data, documents and information within and between judicial operators, police forces, public prosecutors offices and courts.
The ICT4JUSTICE conference aims to foster the experience exchange in establishing and enhancing the national e-justice systems, especially to share different experiences at portals, integration, applications, and examples of good practices, to present world’s latest trends in e-justice sector, and the future oriented services in justice sector. The conference will make possible to:
Share experience in increasing the efficiency of national judicial systems and corresponding trends in the world,
Explore the possibilities for integration of e-justice services and systems at the EU level,
Present the most advanced ICT-supported legal services to citizens, the public sector and business, and share experience in managing legal information (e-law),
Analyse issues such as privacy, information security, non repudiation, and long term archiving of legal documents.
Topics
The major topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Cross-border communication between parties to judicial proceedings and integration of registers and records at the EU level
Systems supporting lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation
Systems supporting prosecutor offices, judicial police, and judicial cooperation
Video-conference in trials and investigations: legal and technological perspectives
Introduction of IT in courts and consequent changes in business processes
Improvement in communications between courts, citizens and organizations
Long term archiving of legal documents
E-submission and E-service
ICT for civil justice applications (litigation,Justice of the peace, bankruptcy, labour, family, statistics etc.)
Interoperability of judicial services in EU
Interoperability in Civil Justice
Copyright and the Internet
Disputes in registers/registars relationships and Domains and Top Level Domains (TLD)s attribution.
Cybercrime
E-commerce, Cryptography and Electronic Signatures