Westernacher Solutions – Digital justice

A functioning judiciary is the basis of a constitutional state. The world is getting faster, and so the demands on jurisdiction are also changing. Only consistent digitalization can ensure that the justice system remains capable of acting in the future. The challenges here are high, as judicial processes are subject to strict security requirements.

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Westernacher Solutions is considered a thought leader and specialist in the digitalization of the justice system. The company offers its customers solutions that take three key aspects into account: A focus on legal practice, automation through AI-based assistance systems and the use of state-of-the-art security and data protection technologies. This is the only way the digitalization of the justice system can succeed. With innovation. And with certainty.

Perceiving digitization as a whole

High case numbers and limited personnel capacities pose major challenges for courts, lawyers, notaries and judicial administration. Many activities are paper-based; a special feature of the justice system. In practice, individual tasks can be completed by lawyers more quickly by hand than in digital form. It is important to understand that an increase in efficiency cannot always be measured in terms of a single work step, but only in terms of the overall process.

In general, there is potential for optimization in three main areas: Firstly, in the automation of processes. It is crucial that the digital solutions are tailored to the processes in legal practice. Designed by technical experts, the automation of recurring sub-processes increases efficiency. Secondly, the secure digital dispatch of documents via electronic mailboxes such as the beA, beN or beBPo reduces the waiting time between processes. Finally, digital documents and files not only offer space-saving and integrity-protecting long-term storage of documents, but also increase availability, both in terms of time and location.

Digitization in the justice system: between benefits and security

Solutions are successful when they are accepted by the end user. This is usually the case when the solution generates a real benefit.

This is not enough in the judiciary. Highly sensitive data is processed and exchanged here, and its protection – in terms of availability, integrity and confidentiality – must be ensured under all circumstances. The prerequisites for the acceptance of a solution are therefore not limited to the increase in efficiency alone, but also require trust in this solution. That is why state-of-the-art security standards and data protection requirements play a central role in the digitalization of the justice system.

The judiciary and dealing with artificial intelligence (AI)

The future also belongs to assistance systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system. They never replace human decisions, but simplify the work involved in redundant processes. Security and data protection must be considered and taken into account on a whole new level in such processes, as all of these systems are based on insights and forecasts derived from data.