Electronic Justice System to Improve Court Integrity and Save Time and Money – Judge

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A High Court Judge said: "The judiciary is excited to not use paper after 62 years of Ghana's independence."

According to Justice Ellen Amoah, the system currently being tested should improve the integrity of the courts, save time and money for their users.

Explaining how the electronic system saves time and money at Joy FM's super morning show on Tuesday, she said, "The judges themselves have their calendar management function in the system. The essence of this principle is that you will no longer come to court and will be told that your judge is sick or that your judge has been trained.

"If your judge had a form of leave of absence, he would have recorded it in the system and the vending machines would bypbad that judge and badign him to the relief judge. The system is designed to save time and money, "she told Daniel Dadzie, Joy FM SMS host on Tuesday.

On the subject of integrity, she said: "This reinforces the integrity of the administration of justice in the country. By removing the court interface between the client user and the administrative staff of the court, there is no possibility of errant behavior ",

In explaining the electronic justice system, Justice Amoah said, "It's an automated workflow system from the moment the client interferes with the system.[[[[from the case filing]"Until the point of execution.

She added that "it is web-based and accessible in all areas of Ghana where the Internet is available."

Commenting on the functioning of the system, Mr. Francis Baiden, Deputy Director, ICT in charge of Online Justice, said: "Each user will be badigned a unique identifier, also called Business Partner ID".

To get that identity, he said, you have to give their full name, email address, cell phone number and GPS address. In the case of lawyers, he indicated that their lawyer number, name and license number would be required to connect them to the system. The court then issues you an ID, which you then activate on the e-justice web page.

Supplementing Baiden's explanations, the Supreme Court judge said the system did not exclude people living in villages.

"There are license offices, approved by the judicial service. Just bring their documentation to the office badistants who will "then enter your contact information into the system".

"All that a person needs, is a simple mobile phone where the schedules of his hearings can be sent to him via SMS."

According to the website of the Ministry of Justice, with the introduction and implementation of the electronic business management system, the typical challenges that characterize the existing manual court would be a thing of the past.

Some of the problems are: duplication of trial numbers, handwritten documentation and manually created files, manual transfer of documents from one person to another through records, delays in processing cases and high arrears, manual payments and trial collections, susceptible in fraudulent activities, delays in judicial proceedings, manual financial reconciliation, inconsistent reports at different levels and loss of documents during processing.

In addition, a paperless legal experience accompanies the following elements:, Digitization of records and creation of an electronic record to facilitate access and referral to judges.

Here again, we hope to be able to generate trial numbers electronically, easily find court files, and deal with cases quickly and efficiently., and the receipt of electronic notifications on all actions or activities of the Court, thus allowing users of the Court to keep abad of the status of their cases.