“New technologies and their implementation in

the judiciary”

ALBANIAN HIGH COUNCIL OF JUSTICE

NEW TECHNOLOGIESI. Court Civil and Penal Case

Management Informatics System (ICMIS),

II. Courts Portal,III. Audio Registration of the Hearings

Sections,IV. Documentation Center of the Judicial

Decisions,

Court Case Management Informatics System (ICMIS)ICMIS was possible due to the technical support of the EUROPEN COMMISSION with CARDS 2003 project,Since July 2010 the administration of the system is under the authority of the Ministry of Justice,Till then two case management system were functional in the Courts, ICMIS and ARK-it,Now almost all the Courts use ICMIS except Tirana District Court, which is planed for a new building.

HOW ICMIS FUNCTIONSICMIS is a software application that can be used both Internet and Intranet,Record Civil and Penal Cases and Save changes to them, Make Random Distribution of Cases among Judges Record Hearing Sessions, Record Sentences and Decisions, Track the status of the cases, Archive cases and make backup of all data recorded till a certain procedural moment

Courts Portal-Courts Portal is connected to ICMIS,-Central webpage is now functional (http://www.gjykata.org)- All Albanian Courts are in the Portal, and are connected to the central web page,- Every court must have its own webpage and be responsible for it,

INFORMATIONES IN THE PORTAL- National database of the judicial case archive, -Provide “on line” support for inspection procedure,-Provides a unified case record and a historical overview of the case, by connecting all the courts, in all the levels -Provides statistic for the courts caseload, pending cases, the number of the decisions given by the court, even depending on the category,

Audio Registration of the Hearings Sections

- No registration of the Courts hearings, - An USAID project in audio registration, has began implementation,- First Court to use the audio recording system is Lezha District Court,- The project is planned to be supported by a video recording system,- The technology is simple to use and included in the ICMIS case management system.

Documentation Center of the Judicial Decisions

- THE CENTER is under the authority of the HIGH COUNCIL OF JUSTICE,- It include an archive of the judicial decisions of all the Courts,- The decisions are accessible by courts, by type of case, type of decisions or simple by a search word, -The archive is part of the HIGH COUNCIL OF JUSTICE webpage, composed by three main categories -JUDICIAL DECISIONS - PUBLICATIONS,- LEGISLATION,

THE FUTURE OF THE CENTERIn the future, we plan to include;- Decisions of the EUROPIAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, against ALBANIA,- Create a link with the CENTER for the OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS,- Publication of the Researches from the students of the SCHOOL OF MAGISTRATES