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Evgen PETROV,

Judge of the Druzhkovsky City Court of Donetsk Region, Doctor of Law Sciences, Professor

AnnaBARIKOVA,

Chief Specialist of the Division of Analysis of Forensic Statistics of the Courts of Administrative Jurisdiction of Legal Management of the Department of Analytical and Legal Work of the Supreme Court, Candidate of Law Sciences

INFORMATION SECURITY IN ELECTRONIC COURT FUNCTIONING

The paper analyses the current state and prospects of electronic court functioning. Characteristics of the electronic court have been presented:

1) competence and territorial dimension – an electronic platform for facilitating interaction between links of the national judicial system;

2) spatial aspect – binding to the territory, introduction of technical solutions for the long-term preservation of information in order to improve the efficiency of the judicial administration (electronic court as a space for the implementation of judicial procedures in a digital format);

3) technical parameters, embodied through the interaction and interconnection of systems and networks, application of centrally-made solutions; and the complex nature of this element, being actively manifested, which guarantees flexibility of the electronic court concept;

4) psychological characteristics – voluntary use of the electronic court services, taking into account possibilities of procedural discretion.

The authors have adduced a foreign experience of electronic court programmes and projects in order to reveal the essence and establish the national meta-rules of legal proceedings. Emphasis has been put on feasibility of using the system theory and the methodological principle of the «Occam’s razor» to ensure the state of information security when implementing the Unified Judicial Information and Telecommunication System in Ukraine.

The following principles of guaranteeing information security in the electronic court functioning have been offered:

1) general legal – compliance with the rule of law, legality and legal certainty;

2) provisional – maintenance of protection measures in the information sphere with the national interests of Ukraine; priority of human rights, balance of public and private interests in risk management;

3) cognitive-heuristic – continuity of functioning, timeliness of updating the information system; maintaining the system ability to self-development and learning, taking into account changes in conditions of the electronic court functioning;

4) administrative and technical – unity of management policy and decision-making; establishing levels of access to information, differentiation of the users’ rights regarding the electronic court services; providing the same integrated information security at different levels of the information system;

5) controlling – continuous monitoring of the system effectiveness, of conduct lawfulness and correctness of the users of the electronic court platform.

Key words: rule of law, openness, transparency, digitalization, electronic court, information security, systems theory, «Occam’s razor».

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