Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Minister of Justice, Joana Rosa, said today that one of the axes for reducing pending cases in the courts involves the effective implementation of the Justice Informatization System (SIJ).
The government official defended this position during the presentation of the proposed law that creates the Justice Information System (SIJ), and approves the new general legal regime for the electronic processing of processes in the covered institutions and makes the third amendment to the Civil Procedure Code, under discussion in general and specialty on the second day of the parliamentary debate.
As he explained, the system also allows the creation of conditions to reduce the waiting time for a court decision from 10 or 20 years to an average of 18 months, highlighting that the platform will be used by all judicial operators.
“The SIJ also brings solutions so that statistical data can be consulted, so that INE, for example, can have statistical data from the courts, citizens can have this data, know how many cases have entered and how many have left, know what type of cases they are these and monitor the judicial operators and the life of the courts”, he said, highlighting that the work will be done in conjunction with the inspection law.
In appeal to the inspection law, Joana Rosa asserted that the system will allow the evaluation of courts, magistrates and bailiffs, as well as delegating the consequences drawn from this evaluation.
The deputy of the African Independence Party of Cape Verde (PAICV) Clóvis Silva recalled that the intention of computerizing justice is a process that dates back to the period of validity of the previous diploma dated 2013.
Clóvis Silva considered it “extremely important” to think about how the system will be operationalized, as it needs technicians “to make it work”, highlighting that the judicial process in Cape Verde is “expensive”.
“Portugal followed its path, which was not easy, it was only in 2019 that it was decided to definitively introduce electronic processing of legal claims into the civil procedure code and we know that it is one of the alternatives and we are not going to say that it is the salvation and resolution the problem of slow justice, but it is an interesting path”, he explained.
For his part, the deputy of the Movement for Democracy (MpD) João Gomes warned in his intervention that the implementation of the SIJ “is not easy, it is not cheap, and it could cost millions”, advancing, however, that the “best system” to speed up justice in the country.
“It is not easy because we know the challenges that are imposed on a country like Cape Verde. Dematerialization is something we dream of, but we know it takes time. Therefore, this process began in 2009 and is only now taking the decisive step of implementation”, he highlighted.
“We, the deputies of this legislature, will be making history if we actually implement the SIJ system in Cape Verde which, I repeat, is not easy, is not cheap and could even cost millions if it is not really structured”, he concluded.
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