Problems of Application of Modern Information Technologies in Russian Judicial Proceedings

The article is devoted to the problem of introducing elements of electronic justice in order to ensure a rational workload for judges of courts of first instance and improve the quality of judicial acts. After the digitalization of court records management, the introduction of electronic schedules of court hearings, electronic document management and the receipt of documents in electronic form, the goal of further implementation of electronic legal proceedings has emerged and the need for a transition to electronic justice in the literal sense has increased. It is proposed to begin the implementation of this goal with the transition to electronic court hearing minutes and the refusal to duplicate them on paper. In civil cases, the task is to automate legal proceedings, transfer legal proceedings from written documents to electronic machine-readable documents. In criminal cases, it seems appropriate for a gradual transition to electronic technologies as a first step to recognize the electronic protocol of the court hearing as the main one with the issuance of electronic copies to the parties for review and submission of comments, and copies and extracts on paper media to be issued only to persons upon their request.

A conclusion was made about the need to introduce automated machine-readable production of procedural acts, decisions and sentences through the digitalization of justice at a new level with elements of artificial intelligence, using the high formalization of law and computer programming methods.