The role and effectiveness of e-justice in the Republic of Armenia. Whether the e-justice system facilitates the exercise of the rights and obligations of and is equally accessible for all its stakeholders

Abstract

This paper is addressed to study and to ascertain the question of whether the E-justice system facilitates the exercise of the rights and obligations of and is equally accessible for all its stakeholders. By illustrating the international experience of the E-justice system in developed countries, this paper highlights the advantages and the success of the E-justice system. The studied experience shows that the E-justice system provides 24 hours/ 7 days access to the E-justice system, exclusion of loss or physical damage of materials, reduction of the length of the proceedings, etc. The successful international experience approves that the E-justice system makes the execution of the rights and obligations easier. Nowadays, the Government of the Republic of Armenia intends to introduce and to implement the unified E-justice system. No matter that some actions have already been done directed to the introduction of the E-justice system, the big part of the implementation is planned to be fulfilled by 2023. The updated tools ascertain the features of the E-justice system but those tools are not enough to express all the opportunities that the E-justice system can give. “The 2019-2023 Strategy for Judicial and Legal Reforms of the Republic of Armenia Action Plan on Setting up a Unified E-justice System and Ensuring Accessibility of Electronic Databases and Updating Thereof” clearly specifies the actions, the baseline situations, the targets as per stages, the verification measures and expected outcome of the actions that need to introduce. Hence, the strategic directions and the actions mentioned above show that the introduction of the unified E-justice system will facilitate of the fulfillment of the rights and obligations of the state, local self-government bodies, advocates, legal entities, individual entrepreneurs, and persons, participating in the proceedings.