The Justice State Automated System: The Experience of General Jurisdiction Courts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region in the Use of Electronic Justice Services

Against the background of recent large-scale technological changes, special attention is paid to the issues of the use of digital services in the justice administration system. The article studies the experience of the introduction of electronic justice elements by general jurisdiction courts of the Nizhny Novgorod region, justifies the efficiency of pilot projects based on the Justice state automated system. The purpose of the research lies in the analysis of the practice of the use of functional opportunities of services of the Justice state automated system by general jurisdiction courts of the Nizhny Novgorod region, development of recommendations for raising the efficiency of events in the electronic justice establishment sphere. The paper uses empirical, systemic, analytical research methods and fact-based materials characterizing the process of introduction of electronic justice elements in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Results of the research: the key tendencies of the use of electronic justice services by general jurisdiction courts of the Nizhny Novgorod region are analyzed; the efficiency of the implementation of a number of pilot projects based on the Justice state automated system is justified, a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of electronic inter-departmental cooperation between courts of the Nizhny Novgorod region is given, testing of the method of multi-criteria ranking of operations of courts in terms of the introduction of electronic justice elements is shown.