e-Justice in the European Union: What Does It Offer to Law

Seminar
e-Justice in the European Union:
What Does It Offer to Law Practitioners?
Beginners and Advanced Modules
Luxembourg, 1-2 June 2015
European Institute of Public Administration
European Centre for Judges and Lawyers
Seminar venue
European Centre for Judges and Lawyers
EIPA Luxembourg
Building of the Chambre des Métiers
4th Floor – Master Room (411)
2 Circuit de la Foire Internationale
1347 Luxembourg
Introduction
Target group
This seminar addresses lawyers, judges, judicial officers and other
legal practitioners who wish to discover the general framework
and main tools of European e-Justice. It is also relevant for officials
of ministries of justice who are involved in the computerisation
of courts, judicial services and national ministries involved
in the development of e-Government projects. Staff of legal
documentation centres and NGOs can also benefit from the
hands-on approach to existing European online resources.
Description
e-Justice has been under discussion at European level since 2007
and we are now able to discover and use the first practical tools
developed as a result of the roadmap for European e-Justice.
The one-day programme of Module 1 for beginners will detail
the evolutionary European framework, roadmap and action
plan, explore the progress and obstacles of a true European
e-Justice, as well as allowing participants to use two of the main
tools of European e-Justice and discuss their relevance to their
professional practice. Some information on the work currently
being done to develop e-Justice tools will be succinctly
provided.
From the mere access to information on laws via the internet,
to the possibility of electronic communication with persons
involved in court proceedings, there is a wide range of
opportunities for using information technologies at national,
European Union and international level. This not only facilitates
communication between professionals, but also improves
access to justice for citizens, businesses and legal practitioners.
However, use of e-Justice tools at European level requires
interoperability between national systems. Users are thus
confronted with some specific obstacles: a confusing profusion
of sources of information; a partial lack of legal harmonisation,
national or even technical choices; and multilingual contexts.
Module 2 for advanced level, builds on the programme of the
seminar for beginners, to address the issues related to future
developments of European e-Justice. The existing European
roadmap covers the objectives for European projects in the
field of e-Justice up until 2013. Some of the existing projects
will only bear visible results after that period since development
of European-wide IT projects necessitates a lot of preliminary
groundwork. The seminar will describe the practical implications
for judicial organisation of the ongoing projects and evaluate the
business case for further projects in the period 2014-2020.
Learning methodology
Presentations, discussions, online exercises, all allowing for Q&A
sessions and discussion of practical use of existing tools.
Objectives
The objectives of Module 1 – beginners, are twofold:
• firstly, to detail the general framework, find out more about
its perimeters and goals and how it is trying to make a
coherent whole from diverse initiatives developed at national
level through improved interoperability and common
projects;
• secondly to present the main functionalities of the principal
tools and build research reflexes through practical online
exercises on the website of the Court of Justice of the
European Union and the European e-Justice Portal.
The objectives of Module 2 – advanced, are twofold:
• firstly, to focus in detail on the questions related to
interoperability, legal security, legal and semantic
interoperability, which need to be solved for each of the
existing ongoing projects, while presenting the tools which
will shortly be available to one or several legal professions;
• secondly, to evaluate the feasibility of development of
further projects building on existing national projects and
implementation of new European legal instruments.
Programme
MONDAY 1 JUNE 2015
TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2015
Module 1: Beginners level
Module 2: Advanced level
08.30
Registration
08.30
Registration
09.00
Welcome of participants and introduction to
the seminar
Virgil Ivan-Cucu, Senior Lecturer, EIPA Luxembourg
09.00
Welcome of participants and introduction to
the seminar
Virgil Ivan-Cucu
09.15
The general framework of European e-Justice
Virgil Ivan-Cucu
09.15
Interoperability issues in European e-Justice
Amélie Leclercq
10.30
Coffee break
10.30
Coffee break
11.00 e-Justice tools for legal information
Amélie Leclercq, Court administrator, Deputy
Director District Court of Lille (FR) and participants
12.30Lunch
14.00
Using e-Justice tools for cross-border procedures
Amélie Leclercq and participants
15.45
Coffee break
15.00
ECRIS – European Criminal Records Information
System: practical cases
Amélie Leclercq and Virgil Ivan-Cucu
16.00
Notarial e-Justice tools: at the service of citizens
and the justice system
Clarisse Martin, Secretary-General, Notaries of
Europe (CNUE), Brussels (BE)
17.15
Conclusions
17.30
Cocktail reception
End of Module 1
11.00 EU e-Platforms and databases for information
exchange in countering crime and terrorism
Virgil Ivan-Cucu
12.30Lunch
14.00
Challenges for future developments
European e-Justice
Amélie Leclercq and participants
of
14.30
e-Codex: European project for better crossborder interoperability
Luc Ferrand, Project director for new technologies
French Ministry of Justice, Paris
15.30
Coffee break
16.00
e-Codex: specificities of interoperability in the
justice sector
Luc Ferrand and Amélie Leclercq
16.30 e-Justice and e-Government: deciding on
the points of convergence and ensuring
interoperability
Amélie Leclercq
17.15
Conclusions
End of Module 2
General Information
Hotel reservations
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prices with a number of selected hotels. All rates are including
breakfast and tourist tax. You can find the complete list of hotels
available here: http://www.eipa.nl/en/pages/display/&tid=256.
Kirchberg
• Hotel Novotel Kirchberg****, at the rate of €145, tel.: +352
49 00 11 44 44; fax: +352 26 48 05 57; e-mail: caroline.schons@
accor.com; booking page: http://businesstravel.accorhotels.
com/fr/reservation/bookings.shtml (Customer code: SC0000
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e-mail: reception@coque.lu; booking page: http://www.
coque.lu/page/reservation-dhotel-en-ligne.
City Centre
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e-mail: simhotel@pt.lu; www.hotelsimoncini.lu (Reservation
code: EIPA).
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info@hotelfrancais.lu; www.hotelfrancais.lu (Reservation code:
EIPA).
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EIPA).
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