UAE - Mubasher: The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts has confirmed its status as the region's first fully paperless court by digitally operating its whole internal processes and customer-facing services.
This step is in line with the Dubai Paperless Strategy, introduced by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum in 2018, according to a press release on Tuesday.
In February 2018, the DIFC Courts introduced paperless trials through the region’s first Courts eBundling system, a secure cloud-based technology that allows court documents to be uploaded from anywhere in the world, as part of its initiatives to become paperless.
Meanwhile, the Ethaq adoption has enabled the DIFC Courts to become the first Dubai entity to acquire the paperless certificate through which court documents can be electronically signed, issued, and authenticated.
The Director of DIFC Courts, Justice Omar Al Mheiri, commented: "In 2022, we will be launching Phase 2 of our Court Tech Lab initiative, a project built, launched, and progressed to position Dubai as the city that pioneers new industry-specific technologies."
Al Mheiri added: "By combining a modern and flexible digital infrastructure with judicial and service excellence, we endeavour to set a new benchmark for cultivating justice for global businesses."
