Filenews 22 December 2021 - by Michalis Chatzivasilis
It took the next step with e-justice the well-known i-justice Supreme Court, which set a milestone on February 1, 2022, where all documents will now be registered in the courts in electronic form.
In accordance with the Supreme Court and exercising its authority under Regulations 6(3) and 40 of the e-Justice (Electronic Registration) Procedural Regulation of 2021, it is decided that:
- From 1 January, 2022, all new cases registered electronically will continue in this format and no registration of a document, in relation to these cases, will be done in physical form. -- From 1 February 2022, all new cases without exception will be registered electronically and no case will be registered in physical form.
- Cases registered or to be registered by 31 December, 2021, electronically, in which a document was subsequently registered in physical form, will continue either in physical form or electronically. Preferably, their continuation should be done electronically. It was also decided that cases that have been or will be registered in physical form by 31 January 2022 will continue only in this format. The "Migration" provided for in Regulation 33 will not apply to cases registered in physical form until January 31, 2022.
As the Supreme Court makes clear, this regulation concerns all courts, except the Administrative Court for International Protection and the Courts which exercise Criminal Jurisdiction, including the Assize Court, the Military Court and the Supreme Court.
Lawyers have already been trained in the system of electronic registration of court documents and it is expected that at some stage possibly in 2022, e-justice will be implemented, according to which all documents in the courts will be registered electronically.
