The digitization of legal work in our courts of justice in conjunction with justice appliances has represented great challenges in this pandemic.
Since March 18, 2020, the Federal Judiciary Council suspended its service to the public making it difficult to establish a lawsuit and affecting the lawsuits already in process.
Due to this, all Mexican States assumed the challenges related to this health contingency, being the State of Mexico the first to update its processes; since April 21, 2020, its Judicial Branch implemented a system to process an electronic signature online, without the need of attending in-person to a Judicial office to obtain it, thus innovating the digitization of legal work in our country.
Through the digitization of the legal work, the legal matters that had started before the contingency are being followed, having the possibility of reaching a sentence, receiving lawsuits of any matter, and respecting the terms established by the law; The court of the State of Mexico is one of the pioneers in the use of digitalization of legal work for the administration of justice.
Within the national scope, the Federal Judiciary Council allows all lawyers to carry out procedures through the FIREL, an electronic document, through which, the legal sector can promote legal protection against lawsuits, review the electronic files related to such lawsuits and the diversity of matters related to them, as well as receiving electronic notifications through the Online Services Portal of the Federal Judicial Branch.
Which are the FIREL benefits?
Quintana Roo’s Judicial Branch Council approved that hearings be held through videoconferences in urgent cases of the Accusatory Penal System and Execution for Adolescents and Adults.
In agreement 10/2020, the Council determined that with the use of technologies in the hearings through videoconferences, compliance with the principles that govern the criminal process is guaranteed.
To release urgent hearings, videoconferences are held in real-time in coordination with the State Attorney General’s Office, the Secretary of Public Security, the Defense Institute, and the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims.
Modifications were also made to the Judicial Branch in family matters law. The gatherings that previously existed and were supervised in the coexistence centers of the courts, are currently held in the form of videoconferences, where minors are connected by one device and by another the parent with whom they must interact, while the staff in charge supervises that they are exercised peacefully and at the established times. To carry out this dynamic, the telephone number of the minors and the parent must be provided, as the instructions for videoconferences are given by this means.
Various challenges are looming in the courts and virtual sessions with the budgets and financial resources of the local judicial branches, training, technological resources, the digital divide, among others. However, ensuring that judicial authorities, applicant lawyers, and public defenders can promote or present promotions, consult files, and carry out hearings, is a great advance.
Quintana Roo is expected to rely on this new digitization of legal work to achieve a prompt and expeditious administration of justice, prevailing the principles of transparency, equity, speed, efficiency, and accessibility so that this modernization is guaranteed.
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