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The objective of the e-Court project is to revolutionize

the application of justice in Brazil by making the whole process

of justice available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week

via the worldwide web. It is a new way of managing judicial

knowledge with integrity, quality and faster distribution of

information, making the access to justice easier and speeding up

the whole judgement process. The proposal is innovative both in

terms of its strategy for judicial knowledge management, as well

as in terms of the technology to be applied. Technology-based

companies, state courts of justice, universities and investment

funds are involved in the process of making the project a national

reality.

Electronic government experience in the Brazilian

judicial system has been very successful: currently most Brazilian

courts turn their jurisprudence available on the web, as they make

it possible for law professionals and citizens to follow lawsuits,

except for those cases protected by secrecy. Some of those

websites already allow the sending of petitions via Internet; they

do not require the subsequent sending of the originals signed by

the lawyer as they recognise, through a password or a digital

signature, the authenticity and the validity of the documents

electronically sent.

Although communication and information technologies

(CIT) are widely used to improve and modernize structures of

public governance in Brazil, it can be noticed that some of the

courts are only just starting to think about knowledge

management as a policy for those improvements. The initiatives

on e-government for the Brazilian judicial power are commonly

restricted to the digitalization of documents and availability of

information concerning lawsuits, keeping aside a global

evaluation of the judicial process and bureaucracy.

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Access on March 19 (with adaptations).

From the text, it can be correctly concluded that

petitions may no longer be required to be actually signed by lawyers as they can be addressed to the law court of justice by means of using electronic devices.