{"id":14289,"date":"2020-09-12T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14289"},"modified":"2020-09-12T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T18:44:54","slug":"judiciary-e-filing-system-crushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/judiciary-e-filing-system-crushes","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary e-filing system crushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Everlyne Judith Kwamboka\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Several litigants have been forced to re-upload documents into the Judiciary\u2019s e-filing after the system failed to process their payments.<\/p>\n<p>The hiccup, experienced between September 3 and 4, is said to have thrown parties racing to file responses in a bid to beat deadlines in disarray.\u00a0\u201cAn invoice was generated but when the client attempted to make payments, M-Pesa returned an error that the \u2018organisation receiving payment is unavailable\u2019, hence no funds deducted and no payment was processed,\u201d reads part of the notice issued by the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The Judiciary\u2019s Information and Communication Technology directorate has since called on parties affected to re-upload the documents and have the system assess the same to obtain new invoices.<\/p>\n<p>The system is in operation in 60 court stations across the country and is expected to be introduced to the remaining 72 by next month.\u00a0Introducing the e-filing system\u00a0on July 1, Chief Justice David Maraga said it had been designed and developed by the Judiciary\u2019s ICT directorate to impact on speed, accuracy and efficiency of service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Law Society of Kenya President Nelson Havi (pictured) termed the hiccup as sabotage allegedly caused by judicial officers out to get kick-backs from parties filing documents, and not a teething problem as indicated by the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is not sabotage, then it is lack of preparedness by the Judiciary because technical problems keep recurring in using this system. A machine\u2019s margin of error should be zero, but this one is 50 per cent,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Havi said the Judiciary should work closely with LSK members to improve the e-filing system with an aim of making it user friendly.<\/p>\n<p>On parties whose filing of documents deadline was on September 3 or 4, he said they need to write to the courts that had issued the orders to show that the delay was not on their part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Everlyne Judith Kwamboka\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Several litigants have been forced to re-upload documents into the Judiciary\u2019s e-filing after the system failed to process their payments. 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