Judge Marcin Sosiński Vice president of the district court in Wroclaw, Poland

The project was established on 29 April 2010 and was launched a year after. e-Protocol are audio recorded or video recorded minutes taken by digital recorder. Currently e-Protocol applies to civil and commercial procedure. e-Protocol replaces written minutes and has the same legal significance as its written counterpart According to law video recorded minutes can be taken in regional courts and district courts. In appeal courts only audio recordings can be taken.

1.To shorten court proceedings 2.To reduce written record of hearings or court proceedings 3.To improve minutes accuracy 4.To improve justice transparency

 e-Protocol consists of: Audio video file Mixed audio file Multi-channel audio file Public annotations Private annotations Shorten minutes Metadata  e-Protocol is prepared by using digital recorder and the ReCourt recorder software  e-Protocol is digitally signed by a court clerk

Courtroom: – trial recordings system, – sound system, – calling out the case participants, – videoconference system Central Videoconference Recordings accessibility Safe Electronic Signature Recordings Storage and Management Automatic Speech Recognition Electronic protocol archive

1.Digital recorder 2.Attached microphones 3.Mobile microphones 4.Widescreen LCD display 5.Wide-angle camera 6.Camera 7.Two computers 8.Document camera 9.Videoterminal 10.Amplifier and speakers

1st zone: Jury bench 2nd zone: Reading stand 3rd zone: Plaintiff/Prosecutor 4th zone: Defendant

Present state of court rooms are covered by the system of 1572 court rooms are connected to videoconference infrastructure trained users of the system Roll-out will continue until the end of 2017 Central Recourt Management Services under construction Future Electronic protocol archive Automatic Speech Recognition

Central RecourtServices (CRCS) Central Management of: RCS servers / application (address, version, accessibility) Calendar of planned videoconference Address book synchronisation (e.g. videoterminals) Recordings transfer Workflow Statistics and reporting Dictionaries

Capacity and performance parameters  Connestions (three participants in various locations):  to 30 simultaneous videoconference in FullHD (1080p) resolution  to 130 simultaneous videoconference in HD Ready (480p) resolution  Thousends of simultaneous videoconference between court rooms  Device registration:  to devices in external net,  to devices in internal net,  ISDN gateway: to 40 video connections 768 Kbps or 100 video connections 384 Kbps or 300 video connections 128 Kbps or 600 audio connections.  Scalability

Another possible use cases ServiceDesk – remote IT help for the users Hearing of the conduct participants (from remote location different than the judicial hall) Legal help service for citizens Remote mediations Translation during videoconference

Promotion promote and stimulate the use of videoconferencing systems in national and cross-border procedures illustrate the possibilities and basic technical details of videoconferencing and how it can be used in legal proceedings; disseminate information on good practices and experiences in videoconferencing distribute the available information on videoconferencing encourage judges, prosecutors, lawyers, other legal practitioners and decision makers to consider using videoconferencing

Summary  Financial advantage  Solution on central level  Modernity of applied technology  Interoperability  Scalability  Optimization of resources  Reliability  Safety