INTERMAGISTRATURE
“Inter-judiciary protocol” – an italian way of IT collaboration between justice authorities
Massimiliano Minerva – Magistrate in charge for IT and Public Prosecutor of Italian Court of Audit
Italy is such a strange country!
We have four justice authorities (four and a half if we think also to military justice)
Italian Justice Authorities
administra tive justice
Justice authorities
ordinary justice, civil and
criminal tax justice
Italian Justice Authorities
accounting justice military
justice
• 10.150 magistrates are holders of the judicial function, for civil and criminal trials
Ordinary justice, civil and criminal
• 490 magistrates which have jurisdiction for the protection of the legitimate interests against the public administration
Administrative justice
• 600 magistrates have jurisdiction in matters of compensation for the loss of public money
Accounting justice
• 3.375 magistrates for trials concerning taxes of every kind and species
Tax justice
• 103 magistrates are responsible of the exercise of military criminal jurisdiction even in peacetime
Military justice
Italian Justice Authorities - workforce
Italian Justice Authorities
…and every justice system has its own rules, courts, judges and employers, and of course, its own IT
systems…
…this is a big problem for
citizen, but also for lawyers
and sometimes for judges
themselves too, because they
have to evaluate who is the
right judge in the trial!!
…and so, sometimes ago I thought:
4 IT systems for justice are too much for one country, too much expensive, there is an enormous lack of mental energy and an unuseful duplication of similar projects, because they do the same things in each justice!!
And very often the
applications are not able to connect each other and to exchange data and
documents, with legal value.
Inter-judiciary Protocol
Inter-judiciary Protocol
…so the initiative “inter-judiciary protocol”
was born as the result of progressive
synergies between the CIO (magistrate) in charge of the ordinary, accounting,
administrative, tax-justice and the
Avvocatura dello Stato (“Office of Treasury attorneys”, public lawyers) in order to
support an effective cooperation.
− A permanent brainstorming place between the Italian IT makers in the Justice sector
− An Italian way of IT
collaboration between justice
authorities
Inter-judiciary Protocol
…thanks to this enthusiastic join,
even before the protocol was
signed…
…SHARING many forms of collaboration to find common solutions and practical tools between these judicial authorities
…a relationship of institutional cooperation
was started in order to ensure a permanent
coordination...
Inter-judiciary Protocol
On 23rd January 2014 the inter- judiciary agreement was signed.
The final purpose is to contribute to the improvement of the whole
performance of the judicial offices, to obtain the reduction of costs
and to increase the effectiveness of
their actions, in particular through the
dematerialization of all documental-
flow and the interconnection of the
various judicial authorities IT systems
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The ambitious aims which were shared refer to:
a. Definition of contributions to elaborate directives, ministerial memorandum and
technical rules about issues of common interest.
b. Creation of a permanent legislative watch
relating to legal-data processing (e-Justice) and to new technologies, with the task of evaluating the legislative changes and the case law, as well as to provide technical input of the above-mentioned matters.
c. Study and analysis of architectural solutions to allow the sharing of the technological
infrastructures and the network, in particular of the electronic data centers and the digital services of common interest.
Inter-judiciary Protocol
d. Coordination of the actions which concern to
initiatives about Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, in order to achieve relevant management economies and to speed up the implementation of the related structures.
e. Data exchange of institutional interest, so that the public authorities can use them into their
administrative and legal proceedings, respecting the authorization processes required by the law.
f. Documents exchange, with full legal value,
introduction of document platforms fit to guarantee effective actions for dematerialization of judicial
service.
g. Coordination of actions related to the initiatives in the field of e-justice, in order to participate in programs in the field of e-justice of the European Union.
h. Elaboration of proposals for the purchase of IT
products for the legal professionals (private and public lawyers), in order to achieve the best economic and contractual conditions.
i. Elaboration of proposals to implement forms of re-use, of interoperability and of application cooperation.
Inter-judiciary Protocol
j. With specific reference to the Electronic Trials and its different implementation, to set operational methods to ensure the availability of services for users,
pursuing the uniformity of the technologies as well as of the document format.
k. Search of all public funding sources, trying to participate to national, European or international programs and resources
Inter-judiciary Protocol
Recently we start a project to unify the data center of the Court of
Auditors and the “Office of Treasury Attorneys”
The main aim is to save money, reducing the costs,
but also to improve the data center standards and performance
Let’s think to the business
continuity of IT systems, one of the most expensive add on
A concrete Project
maintaining the full operational independence and management responsibility of their own IT services
Conclusion
• our main aim is to achieve the
integration between our systems of justice in the technical field, using IT as a stable link between the
different way of making justice in Italy,
• our aim is to look forward and give to citizen and lawyers only one point of access to justice in our country,
trying to use the same IT standards and technical rules
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..if it is not possible to use the same
trial laws.
