The Scale of Application of Electronic Documentary Communications as the Most Important Indicator for Assessing the Digitalization of Judicial Activities

The only way to speed up and ensure the quality of transmission and receipt of information between courts, participants in legal proceedings, bodies of the Judicial Department system and other entities is the use of modern information technologies.

The system-structural, cultural, historical, sociological, statistical methods of scientific knowledge contributed to the implementation of the research objectives.

The author defines the differences between the concepts of “documented information” and “documented communications”. The factors influencing the development of electronic documentary communications in the activities of courts have been established. Improving regulatory support is the leading of these factors. At the same time, interaction with the Federal Archival Agency in matters of creating legislation on office work in the Russian Federation was identified as a promising direction. Standardization and simplification of departmental normative regulation in modern conditions can be carried out by creating a single instruction for courts of general jurisdiction on judicial workflow, which should have a high degree of operational electronic component, taking into account the procedural features of the activities of various courts. Based on the proven experience of pilot courts and the use of available resources of the State Autonomous System “Pravosudie”, it seems appropriate to create a permanent system for monitoring the work of the apparatus of the courts in connection with the conduct of electronic documentary communications. The authorized federal subject, the Judicial Department, is entitled to administer this system. As a result of the study, the scientific basis for the practical implementation of the idea of replacing paper judicial documentary communications with electronic ones is determined – this is the cumulation of knowledge and methods of various knowledge systems – jurisprudence, information technology, document science and archival science.