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Construction of e-Court

Great Challenge to the E-Court! Giant Leap for the Public!

  1. Step 01(2007 ~ 2009) : Opening the first act of digitalizing
    • Electronic Payment order System
    • Support pro se litigation
  2. Step 02(2010 ~ 2013) : Opening Phase in ECFS
    • 2013. 5. 6. Petition, Auction & enforcement, Non-litigation
    • 2012. 5. 7. Domestic relation, Administrative, Bankruptcy
    • 2012. 1. 2. Civil suit 2nd (Supreme Court)
    • 2011. 5. 2. Civil suit 1st (District courts and branch courts)
    • 2010. 4. 26. ECFS in Patent suit
  3. Step 03(2014 ~ 2015) : Completion of e-Court
    • Matured ECFS
    • Completion of e-Court Model

The Supreme Court is planning to replace paper documents with e-documents, and eventually provide high quality convenient service to all litigants. In addition, the courts will be keeping e-records of the trial procedures to save costs resulting from filing, distribution and storage of paper documents and at the same time to provide advanced judicial service, save energy, and follow the new trend of introducing green IT in legal service. The ECFS was first adopted for patent cases on April 26, 2010. The system will be further expanded to civil and all the other cases except for criminal case in the near future. ECFS for civil cases was launched on May 1, 2011 in all district courts and their branch courts with the goal of providing efficient legal service to the public by introducing paperless litigation system. By expanding the e-filing system to all civil cases in January 2012, the Korean Judicial branch will come closer to the completion of introducing e-court. As for the status of e-courtroom, 26 e-courtrooms were completed in 2008 based on the model e-courtroom created in 2006 and simplified e-court rooms are now available in all nationwide courts with the exception of auction, writ and summary courtrooms. Between 2011 - 2017, all general courtrooms will be equipped with IT systems allowing access to all e-records and recording trial procedures. In the future, all cases will be heard in e-courts which will further promote efficient, convenient and transparent trials with hope to practice innovative trial procedures and share judicial information, in all leading to realization of a judiciary, truly serving the public.