Success Stories
Creating a Paperless Justice System
Client:
State of Hesse, GermanyChallenge:
- Modernize the Hessian state's legal process
- Introduce an electronic system to replace the paper-based sharing of case files
Solution:
- eJusticeSOA, a paperless solution that enhances the multi-agency process
Results:
- Assistants, prosecutors and judges work electronically with legal documents in a modernized, more efficient and less costly system
- An estimated 450 pounds of paper are being saved each day.
Information technology is revolutionizing Germany’s justice system. For the first time in Europe, legal authorities have a digital alternative to time-consuming paperwork and inefficient inter-agency communication.
CSC’s eJusticeSOA solution offers a paperless, multi-agency process for the judicial proceeding of law violations from their initiation in enforcement agencies through prosecution offices to litigation in court.
Time is money
The German legal system requires the interaction of police and administration agencies, public prosecution services, regional courts and enforcement groups. The process largely involves paper case files being transported between involved authorities.
Current law allows only a short time limit for prosecution of legal offenses to take place, so improving the speed and efficiency of the process is critical. Our solution improves efficiency and fulfills the authorities’ interests in reducing costs and modernizing business processes.
A flexible approach
For eJusticeSOA, CSC combined the concepts of service orientation, business process management, enterprise content management and legacy system integration. Due to its extensible, flexible architecture, eJusticeSOA is applicable to a wide range of multi-agency e-justice processes.
“With eJusticeSOA we are breaking new ground toward working electronically in justice,” says Jörg-Uwe Hahn, Hessian Deputy Minister President and Minister for Justice, Integration and Europe.
Modernizing justice
Since March 2007, eJusticeSOA has been operated by the Hessian State Data Center and currently supports the judicial prosecution of traffic offenses. This year, approximately 6,000 law violation case files will be judicially processed in Hesse using the solution, with several multi-agency transfers per case.
Before eJusticeSOA, the transport of paper-based case files took up to three days. Now, electronic transfers of case files take only minutes. In addition to time savings, paper costs have been reduced following the switch to electronic processing.
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