'''Electronic process of law''' or '''Electronic lawsuit'''<ref name="NYT">{{cite web|url=http://jcrs.uol.com.br/site/noticia.php?codn=72078|title=Processo Eletrônico|author=Lisboa, E|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=1 October 2011}}</ref><ref name="RVN">{{cite web|url=http://www.24horasnews.com.br/index.php?mat=386042|title=Portal do Poder Judiciário disponibiliza informações sobre o PJe|publisher=Redação 24hs News|accessdate=1 October 2011|archive-date=16 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316063821/http://www.24horasnews.com.br/index.php?mat=386042|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="RD">{{cite web|url=http://www.rondoniadinamica.com/arquivo/processo-eletronico-do-tcu-e-apresentado-a-membros-e-tecnicos-do-tce,28589.shtml |title=Processo eletrônico do TCU é apresentado a membros e técnicos do TCE |publisher=Rondônia Dinâmica |accessdate=1 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316080454/http://www.rondoniadinamica.com/arquivo/processo-eletronico-do-tcu-e-apresentado-a-membros-e-tecnicos-do-tce,28589.shtml |archivedate=16 March 2014 }}</ref> is an up-to-date phenomenon, concerning the use of computer programs in courts and public departments in sue activities. It is a theme of worldwide scope.<ref name="FB">{{cite web|url=http://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/PI/RHandbook01.nsf/1119bd38ae090a748525676f0053b606/5192d3660a0dd573852569cb004c8e15!OpenDocument|title=Cameras in the Courtroom|publisher=The Florida Bar|accessdate=1 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312105600/https://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/PI/RHandbook01.nsf/1119bd38ae090a748525676f0053b606/5192d3660a0dd573852569cb004c8e15!OpenDocument|archive-date=2012-03-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> In Portugal, it is known as the concept of ''processo eletrônico''.<ref name="OAB">{{cite web|url=http://direito2.com/oab/2007/ago/17/processo-eletronico-de-portugal-e-visitado-por-alunos-da |title=OAB |author=OAB |date=17 August 2007 |publisher=OAB |accessdate=1 October 2011 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025135515/http://direito2.com/oab/2007/ago/17/processo-eletronico-de-portugal-e-visitado-por-alunos-da |archivedate=25 October 2011 }}</ref> In India, known as ''Electronic Judicial Resource Management''.<ref name="KNA">{{cite book|first=Kamlesh N.|last=Agarwala|title=Electronic Judicial Resource Management}}</ref> In France, it is called ''Dématerialisation du processus judiciaire''.<ref name="CCJE">{{cite web|url=http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/ccje/meetings/CCJE-GT/Compil_GT_2011_3.pdf|title=Questionnaire sur la dématerialisation du processus judiciaire et l'utilisation des nouvelles technologies par les juges et le personnel des Tribunaux|publisher=Conseil Consultatif de Juges Europeens|accessdate=1 October 2011}}</ref> It is a polissemic expression related to interdisciplinarity between the information technologies and branches of law that govern the lawsuits that take place in departments of public administration; more specifically, the control, follow-up, searches and practices of juridical acts helped by computer systems. Its universal definition can be found in various sources.<ref name="BFN">{{cite web |url=http://www.aliceramos.com/view.asp?materia=1318 |title=O processo eletrônico escrutinado - Parte IV |author=Botelho, Fernando Neto |date=9 October 2007 |accessdate=1 October 2011 |archive-date=9 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609034435/http://www.aliceramos.com/view.asp?materia=1318 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Internationally == Internationally, there is, in Virginia State, the ''Records Managements System''.<ref name="SCV">{{cite web|url=http://www.courts.state.va.us/rmsweb/|title=Web-Enabled Records Management Systems|publisher=Supreme Court of Virginia|accessdate=1 October 2011|archive-date=4 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004194722/http://www.courts.state.va.us/rmsweb/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In Pakistan, the ''Court Automation''.<ref name="SCP">{{cite web|url=http://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/ijc/Articles/20/1.pdf|title=Court Automation|author=Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani|publisher=Suprema Corte do Paquistão|accessdate=1 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417071851/http://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/ijc/Articles/20/1.pdf|archive-date=17 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In England, the ''Legal Case Management Software''<ref name="LT">{{cite web |url=http://www.linetime.co.uk/page_5_legal_case_management_software.html |title=Liberate - Legal Case Management Software System Suite |publisher=Linetime Limited |accessdate=1 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023102201/http://www.linetime.co.uk/page_5_legal_case_management_software.html |archivedate=23 October 2011 }}</ref> There are sources of compared legislation about the matter,<ref name="CF">{{cite web |url=http://www.cartaforense.com.br/Materia.aspx?id=5319 |title=Processo Eletrônico |author=Abraão, C. H. |date=2 March 2010 |publisher=Carta Forense |accessdate=1 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308033035/http://www.cartaforense.com.br/Materia.aspx?id=5319 |archivedate=8 March 2010 }}</ref> but it is certain that this phenomenon takes places in United States, Europe and also in Latin America.
== Meanings of the expression == In a wide sense,<ref name="UJ">{{cite web |url=http://www.uj.com.br/publicacoes/doutrinas/6248/O_Processo_Eletronico_Frente_aos_Principios_da_Celeridade_Processual_e_do_Acesso_a_Justica |title=O Processo Eletrônico Frente aos Princípios da Celeridade Processual e do Acesso à Justiça |author=Slongo, S. I. D. P. |publisher=Universo Jurídico |accessdate=1 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827154155/http://www.uj.com.br/publicacoes/doutrinas/6248/O_Processo_Eletronico_Frente_aos_Principios_da_Celeridade_Processual_e_do_Acesso_a_Justica |archivedate=27 August 2010 }}</ref> it is the use of computers and specific software for the activities in process of law, relative to management, legislation or jurisdiction. In a strict sense,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jus.com.br/revista/texto/11824/o-processo-eletronico-e-o-principio-da-dupla-instrumentalidade|title=O processo eletrônico e o princípio da dupla instrumentalidade2008|author=Pereira, Sebastião Tavares|date=September 2008|publisher=Jus Navigandi|accessdate=22 February 2012}}</ref> it is a kind of management of the process of law in which media have the format of electronic files (text, pictures and audiovisual elements).
== The Brazilian phenomenon == {{main article|:pt:Processo eletrônico no Brasil}} ::(in Portuguese) {{main article|Electronic process of law in Brazil}} ::(in english)
== Public economy == The electronic process of law has been referred as recurrently as a necessary phenomenon to lower the costs of the public finances, dealing with direct mechanisms, as well as indirect ones like the consequences of the gains with accelerating the lawsuits. These waited cause-effect relation{{clarify|date=June 2012}} and the best form to achieve them are object of discussions in the Public powers and in the social networks.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== See also == *Lawsuit *Judicial power *Virtual world *Audiovisual
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