New Approaches to the Digitalization of World Justice

The effectiveness of judicial proceedings conducted by justices of the peace is an urgent theoretical and practical problem of the civil procedure. The paper indicates that the digitalization of world justice can be implemented according to two models. The first model is being implemented in the People’s Republic of China, and it aims to transfer proceedings that are under the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Russia to an online format. The second model, as the author suggests, is more flexible. It will make it possible to realize the potential of world justice in the best possible way, provided that the legislator takes into account both the proposals to change the generic jurisdiction expressed by researchers and possible innovations in the course of the trial. In many ways, such innovations place the choice of the trajectory of the case on the parties, and an online trajectory beneficial to the judicial system should also be beneficial to users, which can be provided with a number of procedural benefits — payment of state fees, requirements for citizen representatives, etc. Judicial precincts of magistrates can serve as a springboard for exploring the possibility of introducing similar dispositive principles of the process into dispute resolution in federal courts.

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