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By Ruth Anderah<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The judiciary Permanent Secretary Pius Bigirimana has told journalists in Kampala this morning the system will, among other things; enable citizens to file cases online,\u00a0make payments and receive automated reminders to court summons and judgements.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He says the system launched in October 2021 will be piloted in 18 courts including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal,\u00a0Jinja High Court, all the\u00a0seven High Court divisions (Land, Commercial, Family, Anti-Corruption, War Crimes and Civil division). <\/p>\n Bigirmana added that E-filing will reduce the cost of papers, address loss of files, reduce human interaction hence limited corruption and ensure efficient electronic calendar management by justices to balance workload.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On 16th\u00a0September 2019 Judiciary signed a five-year\u00a0contract worth Shs9.2 billion with Synergy\u00a0International Systems in a bid to achieve its goal of digitalization of\u00a0court proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ruth Anderah Judiciary is set to roll out use of the Electronic Court Case Management Information system\u00a0(ECCMIS)\u00a0on March, 1st, 2022. The judiciary Permanent Secretary Pius Bigirimana has told journalists in Kampala this morning the system will, among other things; enable citizens to file cases online,\u00a0make payments and receive automated reminders to court summons and judgements. He says the system launched in October 2021 will be piloted in 18 courts including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal,\u00a0Jinja High Court, all the\u00a0seven High Court divisions (Land, Commercial, Family, Anti-Corruption, War Crimes and Civil division). Others are Chief Magistrates\u2019 courts in Jinja, Mengo, Nakawa, Makindye and Buganda Road Court,\u00a0as well as three Grade One Magistrates\u2019 Court including LDC Court, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":53897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Judiciary is set to roll out use of the Electronic Court Case Management Information system\u00a0(ECCMIS)\u00a0on March, 1st<\/sup>, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Others are Chief Magistrates\u2019 courts in Jinja, Mengo, Nakawa, Makindye and Buganda Road Court,\u00a0as well as three Grade One Magistrates\u2019 Court including LDC Court, Kakira and Bugembe.<\/p>\n