Campo de Caso (EFE).- The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has stressed this Friday the need for future procedural, digital and organizational efficiency laws to contribute to “modernizing and transforming” an “obsolete and outdated” judicial administration. to start providing the “equal, sustainable, agile, efficient and quality” public service that citizens demand.
Llop has made these statements after presenting, together with the Asturian Government’s Presidency Counselor, Rita Camblor, the Ministry of Justice’s pilot project to replace the current peace courts with justice offices in small municipalities, an initiative already implemented in several municipalities of Formentera and Albacete that will now reach five Asturian councils.
In this way, Asturias will be the first community with transferred justice powers where an initiative will be launched that will reach Caso, Sobrescobio, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Ibias and Degaña, which will have judicial offices equipped with more services and will allow obtain certificates, connect with courts and obtain information on procedures without leaving the municipality.
A more professional service
It is, according to Llop, that the peace courts evolve “to a more professionalized resource” that citizens can enjoy in mountain municipalities such as Caso, located in the upper part of the Nalón mining basin, and have access to views and virtual procedures or to obtain the electronic judicial file, thus avoiding “any type of digital gap” in the field of justice.
Thus, the offices will allow, among other functions, to testify in a process via video call, obtain birth certificates, marriage certificates, criminal records, last wills, sexual offenses or death, obtain an appointment with the judicial office or find out directly about a procedure, appearance or a sentence, or about the services of mediation and free justice.
These facilities, conceived as physical headquarters where citizens will be attended by trained personnel who assist and answer questions free of charge, will also be prepared to access digital services with personalized attention, free of charge and without long waits, paying special attention to vulnerable people with the commitment to avoid the digital divide.
In addition, professionals who collaborate with the administration of Justice, such as lawyers, prosecutors or social graduates will also benefit since they will be able to improve their services and, for example, those related to free justice and the consolidation of intervention in procedural acts. by telematic means, they will see their professional work favored.
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Justice plans to implement new municipal office pilots in Medina de Pomar and Fuentespina (Burgos), Ceutí (Murcia) and Bembibre (León) -within the territory of the Ministry- and in Sangüesa (Navarra), Guía de Isora (Tenerife) and Arnedo ( La Rioja), already in autonomous communities with transferred powers in matters of Justice.
In the case of Asturias, the regional government has renewed all the computer equipment in the five offices in which the pilot program will be carried out and has reserved a consignment of 400,000 euros from the funds of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism to provide the rest of the Offices.
For the Asturian Executive Minister of the Presidency, Rita Camblor, it is a facility that brings services closer to citizens in a “more agile, efficient, inclusive, friendly and equitable way” in which new technologies are used “as a tool of territorial cohesion, pole of attraction of talent, and economic motor”. EFE
