With the new piece of legislation reforming the Code of Civil Procedure, the digitization of the judicial sector will be enshrined. The bill includes a whole chapter dedicated to the digitization of legal procedures. It stipulates that «all procedures provided for in this law, or in the other pieces of legislation to which it refers, may be carried out electronically».
To this end, an electronic platform for managing judicial procedures and measures will be set up. The platform will concern first and second level courts. Its management will be entrusted to the Ministry of Justice. The latter will also be required to set up a database, in coordination with the Higher Council of the Judiciary and the Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. For its part, the Court of Cassation will have to manage the judicial measures that concern it via its own information system. In particular, this will facilitate the electronic exchange of data and documents between the platform to be created and the Cour de cassation system. In detail, once the electronic platform has been set up, the various parties involved will be required to have a professional account. This applies in particular to lawyers, notaries, adouls (religious notaries), bailiffs, legal experts, court-approved interpreters, etc. For their part, government departments, public institutions, local authorities, and other public-sector entities will be required to enter their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers on the platform, so that they can be used in proceedings before the courts. The same applies to any natural or legal person, so that they can be notified of procedural steps or judgments, or receive court documents electronically.
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