Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 18th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview II. Working Group on e-Government Author(s) Bojan Mursec Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia Ljubljana Slovenia Title Legal enforcement procedure for money claims – an example of effective use of IT in automating of court procedures File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Legal enforcement procedure in Slovenia is one of main contributors to the number of judicial cases in Slovenia due to the large number of yearly filed enforcement proposals. Relatively straightforward nature of the legal enforcement procedure, which involves a substantial share of administrative tasks, also makes it an excellent candidate for IT support in the form of an automated court information system. The “Legal Enforcement Procedure for Money Claims” (CoVL) project set a milestone in the development of court information systems in Slovenia. It was the first to introduce e-filing on a large scale to Slovenian courts, along with conversion of paper documents to the electronic form, automatic checking and processing of enforcement proposals, IT supported decision-making, and central printing, enveloping and dispatching services. The paper will focus on the key success factors, identified during the project, and how these key success factors contributed to the successful fulfillment of the business goals of the project. Firstly, the importance of adequate information system architecture choice, which has to be able to provide a solid base for the introduction of new services to the existing information systems, is elaborated. The concept of three key components in every court information system development – legislative, organizational and technological – is introduced and illustrated using the featured project as an example. The importance of interoperability with other systems – in our case, the use of information contained in official registers – is presented, along with the benefits to the success of the project. Transfer of knowledge, experience and best practices from other countries to the project will be further discussed. The benefits of such transfer will be evaluated based on the experience from the EU twinning project and study visits to similar solutions. Further, the business goals of the CoVL project will be explained in detail, along with the decisions made and the implementation steps taken by the project group in order to achieve these goals. Detailed description of each implementation step, with statistical results illustrating its contribution to the goal achievement will be presented. Finally, the lessons learned from the project will be summarized in order to provide a solid base for further introduction of new services to the existing information systems, and hopefully, to contribute to the pool of best practices in the judicial area.
