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The most comprehensive treatment of an increasingly urgent topic, this book explores issues relating to electronic justice from around the world and includes the key reports from the 2010 International Association of Procedural Law Conference in Pecs, Hungary.

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The effect of modern and communication technology on civil procedure first appeared on the agenda of the conference organized by the International Association of Procedural Law in 1999, verifying Lord Woolf´s statement from the 90´s, that "IT will not only assist in streamlining and improving our existing systems and process; it is also likely, in due course, itself to be catalyst for radical change as well...".

At the conference in Pecs in the autumn of 2010 participants from three continents and twenty-five countries examined all aspects of the impact of modern information technology on civil procedure beginning with the electronic submission of the application, ranging from electronic service of documents and electronic means of proof supported by modern information technology. In addition to the practical issues they discussed the possible impact of electronic procedures on traditional principles of civil procedure. The conference book contains seven main reports and eleven correferates, the foreword was written by Prof. Peter Gottwald, the President of the International Association of Procedural Law.

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Courses of Proceedings by Electronic Means; Masanori Kawano.- Applied technology in litigation proceedings; Zoltán Ambrus.- Some Remarks on the Course of Polish Electronic Proceedings by Writ of Payment; Robert Kulski.-Electronic Justice in Tehran; Majid Pour-Ostad.- Electronic Service of Documents. National and International Aspects; Fernando Gascón Inhausti.- Enforcement of a Claim with the Support of the New Information Technology. Protection of the Creditor and the Debtor; Michele Angelo Lupoi.- Enforcement of a Claim with the Support of the New Information Technology in the EU, Romanian Case Study; Rikhard-µrpád Pantilimon.- Electronic Documents. Security and Authenticity; Helmut Rüßmann.- Über die Beweiskraft der elektronischen Dokumente; Dimitris Maniotis.- Taking of Evidence - Electronic Means of Proof and Estimation of Evidence. A few notes and suggestions for country reporters; Georg E. Kodek.- Do DNA Databases Allow More Efficiency in Combating Domestic and Cross-Border Crime? María José Cabezudo Bajo.- The Impact of Digital Information on American Evidence-Gathering and Trial. The Straw that Breaks the Camel´s Back? Richard L. Marcus.- Applications and Trends of Digital/Electronic Evidence in China´s Litigation; Baosheng Zhang and Huangxun Chen.- Virtual Civil Litigation: a Visit to John Bunyan´s Celestial City; Paul D. Carrington.- The Future of the Traditional Civil Procedure; Petrônio Calmon.- Proceedings on the Web; Jose Eduardo de Resende Chaves Junior.- Electronification of Civil Litigation and Civil Justice - The Future of the Traditional Civil Procedure facing the Electronification; Nikolaj Fischer.- Digital Technology and the Character of Civil Procedure; Viktória Harsági.

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