In the era of"Internet plus",the informatization reform in the judicial field is advancing rapidly.On January 5,last year,the Shanghai Higher People's Court opened the country's first lawyer service platform in the city's tertiary courts.Lawyers can use the platform to conduct online filing,online review,case inquiry,complaint suggestions,and so on.Over the past year of operation of the platform,16000 cases have been filed.Of the 1413 law firms in Shanghai,1301 have used the platform,accounting for 92%of the total;More than 9200 lawyers have become frequent users of the platform.

"From logging in online to completing the data transmission and filing,it only took one hour."Speaking of his first online case filing experience,Xie Xiangyang,a lawyer at Gaopeng(Shanghai)Law Firm,still feels a bit inconceivable.

In January this year,Xie Xiangyang received an economic case with a target amount of 400 million yuan."The case is relatively complex,involving many parties,and the litigation materials alone are stuffed with five or six file bags,"Xie Xiangyang recalled.In the past,Xie Xiangyang used to go to the court window to file a case.When he came and went,it always took half a day,and he also had to make multiple copies of five or six file bags of information.It was too big to think about.On the afternoon of January 29th,Xie Xiangyang opened the Shanghai Court Lawyer Service Platform and entered his own information.The platform jumped out of the"filing window".Next,Xie Xiangyang scanned and transmitted the data,which was completed in one hour!

On February 1st,Xie Xiangyang learned from the platform that the case had been accepted,and he could directly pay the litigation fees through the lawyer service platform."Now,he is waiting for the platform to send a trial notice,saying,'This has greatly improved our work efficiency,and we no longer need to spend a lot of time on the road.'"

The Shanghai Court Lawyer Service Platform is the first comprehensive service platform tailored for lawyers in China,involving the entire process of litigation and trial execution.The lawyer service platform provides five major categories of services,including online filing,online processing,online communication,online assistance,and online evaluation,with 24 functions.Lawyers can complete all procedures such as submitting materials,paying litigation fees in advance,and obtaining case numbers online without leaving their homes.

The"automatic avoidance function of court trial scheduling"developed by the lawyer service platform is also innovative nationwide.After the lawyer uploads the agency procedures to the platform,the platform will automatically identify all cases represented by the lawyer in the Shanghai court,and automatically avoid the date of the trial.In the past year,the lawyer service platform has automatically avoided court trial scheduling 1235 times.

"Lawyers'time has been saved in this way,"said Luo Jianhao,Deputy President of the Case Filing Division of the Shanghai High Court.During the construction of the lawyer service platform,the Shanghai High Court transferred 200000 cases involving lawyers throughout the city.After careful data accounting,it was found that if lawyers could reduce the number of trips to and from the court to review papers in each case,they could save more than 600000 hours of work time and about 100000 vehicle trips.

This article is translated by software translator for reference only.