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How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business
Benjamin Lesjak
Teaching assistant – University of Maribor, Faculty of Law
e-mail: [email protected]
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Introduction
Lawyers: right information at the right time
Public access to the laws in Slovenia
legislation, court and government decisions, legal opinions and literature, data from registers and public records, personal experiences, public information etc.
One-way communication is not enough
Automating old techniqiues / new ways
Communication, document, case, knowledge management
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E-business at court
E-business at court - conditionally G2C or G2B
wider definition of letter G
Action Plan eGovernment Up to 2004
one of the segments concerns justice
E-business between parties at court
communication / collaboration process with the court, information and services exchanged, delivered and paid with use of IT start / end of a trial at court.
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Survey
E-mail survey
Sample
judges of 65 Slovenian Courts of law, lawyers at Slovenian law firms, jurists at both Slovenian faculties of law.
1800 e-mail addresses
163 questionnaires returned
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Demographic data
Presence of IT and preparedness for e-business
Awareness of electronic filing
Perception of e-business
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Results and discussion
Profession:
judges (36%), lawyers (35.4%), jurists (13.7%), other (14.9%)
Time at job spent on the internet
not more then 1 hour (57.7%) more then 1 and less then 2 hours (27%)
Number of received e-mail messages
more then 1 and less then 5 (54.3%) more than 6 and less than 10 (22.8%) more than 10 and less than 15 (12.3%)
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Results and discussion
89.6% of participants did use World Wide Web
search for court decisions (93.3%) search for sources of law (91%) search for legal literature (83.6%) e-banking (46.3%) (57.7% lawyers) online shopping (16.4%) e-government services (8.2%)
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Perception of e-business
Filing documents electronically in two years (50%)
Courts should enable electronic filing (near 90%)
Electronic filing would quicken and cheapen trial (near 50%)
Courts should send writings electronically (75%)
Paperless trial in the next two years (disagreed by two thirds)
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Conclusions
Slovenian lawyers are prepared for adopting e-business at their every day work
Actively use the IT
High expectations of new services (e-filing of documents)
Projects at e-government
Procedural legislation
Prototyping
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