Justice is criticized for its slowness, its distance from the citizen, its archaic organization. However, thanks to cloud legal software, the Ministry of Justice could greatly improveimprove its functioning and its relationship with citizens.
The opportunities of cloud legal software
Many services could usefully function thanks to cloud solutions: civil status, complaint filings, transfer of information between entities (police station, prison, court, lawyers, etc.), etc.
Let's take the example of the flow of information between entities. The time spent by police officers collecting complaints from citizens is long and demanding. You need precision, give the complainant time to present things clearly, and then convert these words into understandable text.
Today there are effective technical solutions to organize the work process differently:
- record the complaint using voice dictation
- automatically convert lyrics to text using software
- reread, clarify, have signed, archive the document
- transmit it to the parties concerned
In Africa, the case of Mali
However, the difficulties encountered in exercising justice in France are even higher in certain countries. Let us take the example of Mali, a very vast African country, largely desert, severely lacking in infrastructure and with a very fragile state.
Justice is failing due to lack of resources and budgets, but also due to bad practices inherited from the past. The article following from MaliActu.net presents the state of the situation during the appointment of Mamadou Konate appointed Minister of Justice in July 2016.
Add to this picture that the roads are impassable, electricity is not guaranteed, Internet connections are erratic and staff are rarely trained in IT: how do you collect complaints? How to send them to court? to prisons? to lawyers? It's impossible !
The solutions provided by cloud legal software
This is where legal software and more specifically cloud technology provide added value. Now imagine that a complainant files a complaint at the police station in Timbuktu using a dictaphone. Have these words automatically converted into text and inserted into the appropriate document templates (available in the cloud). The clerks or police officers only have to check and verify. Even without electricity or wired Internet, a mobile connection allows you to access documents. Mobile applications have therefore enabled everyone to carry out their role with as little difficulty as possible.
This complaint (or report, or other) is then not transmitted but made available to other stakeholders (judge, lawyer, police officer) via the cloud. Here again, everyone accesses and shares information when they can, freeing themselves from practical difficulties.
Thanks to the centralized provision of information, investigations are much faster. Therefore, trials are based on reliable and up-to-date information. Clerks use and produce documents easily. Both the complainant and the victim perceive the effectiveness of the system, which reinforces their confidence in justice. Finally, the guilty parties see their chances of being convicted increase.
This vision is neither an idealized nor futuristic vision of justice. This vision can become reality as long as ministers support it and rely on reliable, well-designed and perfectly secure technologies. Software like Jarvis Legal is perfectly capable of fulfilling this role.
So who knows, maybe we will soon see such a project come to fruition?
