전자소송의 문제점과 개선방안

Act on The Use of Electronic Documents in Civil Litigations was promulgated and implemented on March 24, 2010, launching the era of electronic litigation. It has been 13 years since the patent court began electronic litigation in April of the same year. Electronic litigation began with rapid social changes, such as information and digitisation, and was a breakthrough in judicial services beyond mere computer work. The court’s litigation status (2021), which was announced recently, is a good example of how active electronic litigation has become. According to official data from the judiciary, interest in electronic litigation is explosive and electronic litigation has been firmly established as a nationwide judicial service system. Thus, electronic litigation is the fruit of the judicial electronic litigation system based on digital technology. Nevertheless, electronic litigation, including the judicial litigation system, have been raised, and voices are calling for enhancing the tasks that need to be improved. Therefore, it is a task of the era to resolve the problems associated with electronic litigation and improve the electronic litigation system to suit our reality for a judicial service proportional to the needs of the public living in the digital age. This increases the reliability of electronic litigation, ultimately guarantees the rights and interests of the people, and at the same time achieves the advancement of justice. With these tasks, this paper summarises the basic concepts of electronic litigation and examines the current status of electronic litigation in detail. However, according to the international evaluation that Korea’s electronic litigation is currently at the highest level in the world, the paper excludes the current status of electronic litigation in major countries, focuses on the current status of electronic litigation, and, improvement measures, and development directions. The research results were effective in terms of the expectation of the ‘next-generation electronic litigation system construction project’, currently being promoted by the Supreme Court. If the business plan is completed (2023) and implemented at the litigation site (2024), judicial litigation system is expected to bring about a drastic change that cannot be compared to the current system. Furthermore, it was foreseen that there would be a shift to a state-of-the-art digital system, including an electronic court system based on the electronic litigation procedure or simultaneous interpretation through artificial intelligence for multicultural people. If the electronic justice system changes that way, I expect the Supreme Court of Korea to establish itself as an advanced court with excellent technology that matches the technological revolution era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, drawing attention from the world.