Features of e-court regulation in Ukraine

Abstract

The relevance of the subject under study is determined by the fact that five years ago in Ukraine, the transition to the electronic justice system began with the purpose of increasing the level of public trust in judicial bodies, speeding up the terms of consideration of cases and saving time. However, as of the end of 2022, the operation of electronic courts faced certain difficulties. The purpose of this study was a comprehensive regulatory analysis of the transition of the judicial system to the implementation of electronic legal proceedings. The methods used in this study included system-structural, comparative, comparative legal, formal legal. The results of the present study found that the process of launching electronic legal proceedings began in 2017 after the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Economic Procedural Code of Ukraine, the Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine, the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine and other legislative acts” and continues until now. It was found that in the conditions when the legal regime of martial law is in effect, the accession of all courts of Ukraine to the subsystem of the “Electronic court” would substantially speed up the consideration of cases and relieve the courts that were not under occupation. The paper substantiated the necessity of considering the practices of Estonia, which has one of the best automated judicial systems in the world. It was established that despite the perfect statutory regulation of electronic legal proceedings, it is also necessary to provide financial and technical support for courts to fully join such a subsystem. The materials of this study can be useful in investigating the disciplines “Judicial and Law Enforcement Agencies”, “Problems of Judicial Proceedings in Ukraine”, “Information Law”, etc.