Compulsory use of new court management system

By Estudio Chaloupka

The Supreme Court of Argentina established the enforcement of a new court management system, as a way to standardize the administrative criteria of all judiciary offices.

Last February, through Court Order No. 3/15, the Supreme Court of Argentina established the compulsory use of a new court electronic management system, aimed at consolidating the administrative and organizational criteria of all judiciary offices.  The most relevant feature of this new system is that the parties involved in a lawsuit should no longer personally appear at court to file documents, be notified, obtain copies of the file, or check the status of a given action, for proceedings shall be conducted online, and decisions by the respective Judge should be immediately uploaded in the electronic file of each legal cause.

“In the process of change and modernization of the judiciary service, the Supreme Court has proceeded to regulate different areas related to the use of electronic and digital technologies and their gradual implementation in the judiciary field”, the ruling stated.

These mandatory guidelines by the Supreme Court were issued to guarantee the adequate and updated use of the new electronic management system, and to order the progressive standardization of the different documents that conform a judicial file.  To that end, this system, currently used only in those cases where the parties involved have reported their electronic addresses, will be compulsory to all parties involved in a court action, and will allow users to access electronic notifications and web consultation services, including the status check of the respective legal action.

A profile will also be enabled to legal entities and state agencies, so that they can view the processes where they participate.

Initially, it was sought that the new system came into effect as of the first business day of May, 2015.  However, at the request of the Bar Association, the Supreme Court, through Court Order No. 12/15 of April, 2015, postponed effective date of this new electronic management system until the first business day of September 2015.