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If you are confident that financial institutions in Costa Rica will not take your case to the judicial recovery process because it is so tedious, the story may begin to change.
Since December 10, the Judiciary made available to banks, credit cards and financial intermediation entities, the creation of electronic records in the Special Collections Court.
That is, they can raise complaints and provide documents without having to physically go to court. It is also possible to receive notifications and view the status of the case from any computer with Internet access.
To do so, they must first update their information in the court of Collections and request a password to the Information Technology Department. Then they can use the services to follow the link to the Online Management Page of the Judiciary: www.poder-judicial.go.cr.
A profile will be assigned (username and password) to each applicant whether they are employees of the departments that handle legal charges, trial attorneys or others involved in the cases.
The Court of Special Collections in Costa Rica barely started in May and already has 30,000 files of paper, which will gradually be digitized. They will join those that are opened in electronic form from now on.
Ricardo Hernandez, coordinating judge of collections, explained that other possibilities that the court has are putting embargoes directly upon entering the Public Registry’s system.
In the future, judges could conduct auctions and even freeze bank accounts from their dispatch. With such innovations, the Judiciary aims to achieve significant savings: First, on paper and toner, which means costs of ¢1 billion and ¢300 million, respectively, in 2008. In addition, shipments and savings in time are difficult to quantify.
”The paper expense is very small compared with all the expenses around. Those are the ones we want to decrease, allowing the public to consult long distance” said the chairman of the Judiciary, Luis Paulino Mora.
According to the hierarch, there has been talk for eight years about the use of information technology in the courts, but changing the culture of judicial officers has been complicated.
The project was initially created with the idea of implementing a “zero paper” Information System.
However, as was argued by Judge Luis Guillermo Rivas, the judges were opposed to it by considering that many new things were being implemented in 2008 in reference to certain laws and opening offices.
Abel Jimenez, president of the Costa Rican Association of Judicature (Acojud by its initials in Spanish), said that they are not opposed to change as long as it is done gradually. Other conditions that he considers critical are that there are no impositions upon the Court and that the project be evaluated.
”We have not been consulted. We have seen the changes as they occurred,” said Jimenez.
The Acojud brings together 789 of 840 judges in the country.
But even so, the plan took off without the opinion of the judges and it will continue in the courts of charges to be created in the province seats. For 2009, an attempt will be made to convert the Judicial Circuit of Pococí in Guápiles into the first one that does not use paper.
This is a project that we see as beneficial at TicosLand.com in Costa Rica, if we talk about caring for the environment, this change will be fulfilling this objective. However care must be taken so that the systems are very secure due to the scams that are currently being perpetrated and avoid by all means the ways that people can be affected by any crime of this type.
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