Ensuring the rights of citizens to judicial protection and fair trial with the help of the state automated system "Justice"

Abstract

In the article, the authors consider the issue of the introduction of electronic justice services in the Russian Federation and the development of recommendations for improving the mechanisms for the implementation of the rights of Russian citizens to judicial protection with the help of the SAS "Justice".The object of this study is the procedural legal relations arising during the use of the SAS "Justice" in the conduct of legal proceedings in the Russian Federation. The subject of the study are the norms of substantive and procedural law regulating the activities of courts and judicial bodies, ensuring the realization of citizens' rights to judicial protection through the use of the SAS "Justice" and law enforcement practice for organizing access to legal proceedings using automated information systems. The novelty of the study was that the authors critically analyzed the norms of substantive and procedural law of the Russian Federation regulating the functioning of the SAS "Justice". As a result of the study the authors formulated the recommendations for improving Russian legislation. The authors came to the conclusion that the SAS "Justice" allows the implementation of certain procedural rights of the parties and other participants in the trial. At the same time, the main purpose of creating this system is to provide informatization, electronic and digital support of administrative and basic processes of the judicial system. The realization of citizens' rights to access justice in electronic and digital form through the SAS "Justice" is largely a secondary service that is developing as a by-product of the overall digital transformation of the judicial system. To ensure the rights of citizens to access to electronic and digital justice, it is necessary to improve the norms of substantive and procedural law.