Damascus-SANA
Archiving and issuing justice agencies electronically and automating judicial and administrative work are essential steps to reach an integrated electronic system that contributes to alleviating the burdens on citizens and cadres working in justice, courts and various directorates of the Ministry of Justice in terms of time and effort and speeding up litigation procedures, according to Assistant Minister of Justice Judge Tayseer Smadi.
Judge Smadi stated, in a statement to SANA reporter, that the actual start of the archiving operations was in 2016, and since that year until now, nearly 13 million old and new judicial agencies have been archived with their attachments in various governorates except for Raqqa, Hasakah, and Deir ez-Zor due to terrorist crimes in these governorates and the difficulty in obtaining the required information. For agencies and other identification papers, a large number of which were subject to loss and vandalism.
Smadi pointed out that 2 million of the archived agencies belong to Adliya, Lattakia and Tartous, where some agencies dating back to 1911 and beyond were archived.
Smadi revealed that a draft legislative instrument is currently being prepared to address agencies that were lost, stolen or burned during the years of the terrorist war on Syria, to guarantee the rights of citizens who were affected by that.
Regarding the mechanism for a citizen to obtain a legal document or power of attorney, Smadi stated that it takes place after the notary public verifies the identity card of the applicant through an electronic reader, whereby the required document or power of attorney is granted quickly and accurately, stressing that the documents are printed on paper of special quality with specifications and standards. Security to prevent any case of corruption, as any forgery can be detected through the e-reader.
Regarding the program for analyzing the course of the judicial process, starting from the date of registration of the invitation until the issuance of the ruling, which has been applied since 2014 in the courts of rural Damascus, Smadi explained that the national expertise in the ministry, in cooperation with the Center for Scientific Research and Studies, was able to redesign the program, whose implementation steps were the first in some courts of the governorate. Daraa in 2010, but it stopped a year later due to terrorist crimes, and its justice was burned.
Smadi pointed out that preparations are being made to launch this program in the courts of Aleppo Governorate, and then the rest of the governorates, respectively, after preparing the infrastructure, stressing its importance in reducing corruption and reducing friction between the citizen and the employee. To postpone lawsuits and statistics on the number of registered and dismissed lawsuits and the reasons for that, and thus allows monitoring the lawsuit from the procedural aspect and the work and performance of the judge.
According to Smadi, the Ministry continues to automate administrative work in the Diwan, Correspondence, Accounting, Warehouse, Library and Self departments. A number of training courses have been implemented to qualify human cadres, including judges, notaries and administrators, to work in the field of archiving and electronic issuance of judicial transactions.
Smadi stressed the importance of archiving and electronic work to preserve official documents from damage or any vandalism, pointing out that terrorist acts of vandalism caused the loss of 100,000 decisions in the Court of Appeal for Misdemeanors in Daraa, which are recorded in records from 1990 to 2011, and acts of terrorism led to the loss of millions Power of attorneys in Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, Hama, Aleppo, and in the countryside of Damascus as well, where about 600,000 power of attorneys were lost that were deposited in the Justice Palace in Duma in the countryside of Damascus dating back to before 1984.
Mahran Abu Fakhr
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