The Agency for Legislative Initiatives took part in CourtUP: the First Annual Court Administration Conference. The event brought together representatives of the judiciary, primarily court staff, to discuss key aspects of effective court administration, workload optimisation, staffing needs and modern approaches to organising the work of courts.
A key part of the conference was a discussion on digital solutions to improve both public access to justice and the day-to-day work of Ukrainian courts, particularly in wartime.
The e-court system was a central focus of the panel discussion ‘Digitalisation and Court Administration: Modern IT Solutions to Enhance the Effectiveness of Justice’. Participants discussed the concept and implementation timeline for the project’s core modules, currently planned for the fourth quarter of 2027.
One of the key components of the e-court system is electronic document management, which requires a fundamental upgrade using the latest technologies and considering the needs of both courts and external users.
Improving this tool will be possible with the support of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives within the project on digitalising Ukraine’s court system.
Head of the Rule of Law Area at the ALI, Karyna Aslanian, noted that implementation of the project has already begun. It has every chance of becoming the largest joint initiative of the judiciary, bringing together all key stakeholders — courts, judicial governance bodies, development teams from the Ministry of Digital Transformation, international partners and donors, civil society, as well as representatives of the IT industry selected through transparent procedures.
She stressed that the digitalisation of processes in the judicial system is both a requirement of international partners under the Ukraine Facility and a recommendation of the Shadow Report by the coalition of civil society organisations led by the Agency for Legislative Initiatives. Moreover, the task of digitalising court files and document flow is also envisaged in the Rule of Law Roadmap and is subject to specific deadlines.
The Project will be implemented jointly with key judicial institutions — the Supreme Court, the High Council of Justice, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. More about the digital products to be developed for the justice sector within the Project is available here.
The expert also recalled that the Agency for Legislative Initiatives had previously examined the needs of court staff in its Green Paper on the Functioning of Civil and Patronage Service in the Judiciary, where process digitalisation is among the top demands and areas for change. The ALI is now working on a White Paper – a comprehensive document setting out recommendations for concrete steps to be taken by both key public authorities and the courts to improve processes in the Ukrainian justice system, including through the introduction of digital solutions.
The event was organised by the All-Ukrainian Association of Court Staff with the support of the EU Project ‘Pravo-Justice’, implemented by Expertise France.
