JSCA Executive Director: “Electronic processing does not mean digitizing paper files.”

May 19, 2021
Training

At the XI Meeting of Ministers of Justice or Other Ministers and Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA), JSCA Executive Director Jaime Arellano called on member states to energetically work on and develop the components that the region’s justice systems need to guarantee effective access to it to all individuals and noted that digitalization will play a key role in that process.

According to the Chilean attorney, Latin America is facing important challenges in the area of digitalization of its judicial systems. Arellano noted that there are important gaps in this area and in matters related to gender, procedure models and the limited development of comprehensive alternative dispute resolution methods.

“We must identify and address people’s priorities and needs, not those of attorneys and justice operators,” he said.

He also encouraged member states to make a strategic investments in access to justice (IDEA-J),which involves geographic solutions related to, for example, promoting virtual justice community centers, mobile legal aid programs or legal aid apps. “Electronic processing does not mean digitizing paper files.”

He also highlighted the contributions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to justice. “It is already here, and it can be used to support the design of dispute resolution models, operations and case management, and affirmative and decisive functions in the judicial realm,” he stated during his presentation.

The forum, which is the most important regional political and technical space for issues of justice and judicial cooperation, the exchange of experiences, coordination on public policy and strengthening the rule of law in the Americas, was presided over by Ecuador’s Attorney General, Dr. Diana Salazar Méndez. In addition to highlighting initiatives to combat corruption, drug trafficking and crimes related to the public health crisis, she noted the modernization processes that member states must undertake.

This meeting ended on May 19.

Watch the XI REMJA online at:

Noticias relacionadas:

CEJA Receives the Director of Brazil’s National School of the Public Defender’s Office and Discusses Cooperation to Strengthen Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Justice

On Friday, November 28, CEJA’s Executive Director, Nataly Ponce, and the Coordinator of Studies and Training, Rodrigo Nakada, held a working meeting with Diego Oliveira Silva, Director General of the National School of the Public Defender’s Office of the Union (DPU) of Brazil.

CEJA Highlights the Importance of Data to Make Afro-Descendant Populations Visible in Justice Systems across the Americas

The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA) participated in the International Workshop “Interculturality Approach in Policies for Afro-Descendant Populations”, organized by the Technical Secretariat of the Inter-American Network of High Authorities for Afro-Descendant Populations (RIAFRO) of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Panama’s Judicial Branch and CEJA Present the Case Management Protocol at an International Seminar

On November 19, the International Seminar on the Dissemination of the Case Management Protocol was held in Panama City, marking a key milestone in the process of modernizing Panama’s civil justice system. The initiative was jointly promoted by Panama’s Judicial Branch and the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA).

CEJA Launches in Ecuador the Specialized Program “Governance and Modern Management of High Jurisdictional Courts”

The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA) will launch on October 28 in Ecuador the Specialized Program “Governance and Modern Management of High Jurisdictional Courts”, developed in partnership with the National Court of Justice of Ecuador and the International Italo-Latin American Organization (IILA), within the framework of the FIEDS/ITAJUS project.

CEJA Presented to the OAS the Collaborative Roadmap: A Key Step Toward Strengthening Justice and Democracy in the Americas

The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA) presented to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs (CAJP)

New CEJA publication now available in English: Index of Judicial Congestion in the Americas 2025

The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA) is proud to present the English version