'Court Electronic Litigation System' Restored After Two Interruptions

Occurrence During 'Data Migration' at Suwon and Busan Rehabilitation Courts Opening

The court electronic litigation system was normalized after experiencing two interruptions. The suspension of the electronic litigation system caused confusion, as parties involved in trials were unable to check key details of cases.

According to the Court Administration Office on the 6th, the electronic litigation system was normalized from around 9 p.m. the previous day. Earlier, on the 2nd, the sudden suspension of the electronic litigation system caused disruptions in civil trials and other proceedings.

The Court Administration Office stated that the issue occurred during additional data migration work to support the normal operation of the Suwon Rehabilitation Court and Busan Rehabilitation Court, which opened on the 1st of this month.

The Court Administration Office explained that during the opening process of the Suwon and Busan Rehabilitation Courts, they took down the trial affairs and electronic litigation system to ensure accurate migration while converting about 790,000 transferred cases and approximately 700 million data items subject to transfer.

The problem arose because the migration work could not be completed by the scheduled completion time of 4 a.m. on the 1st due to system errors and the massive volume of data. As the electronic litigation system became unresponsive, some services related to trial affairs, such as case searches on the court website, public service of process, announcements of acquittal judgments, criminal deposit announcements, and online access to judgments, were suspended.

With the court system effectively paralyzed, Kim Sang-hwan, head of the Court Administration Office, expressed, "We deeply apologize for the great inconvenience caused to the public using the trial affairs and electronic litigation system."

However, the electronic litigation system, which was normalized late on the afternoon of the 2nd, was temporarily suspended again over the weekend on the 5th and 6th. Regarding this, the Administration Office stated, "To minimize inconvenience to users, data migration work is being conducted over the weekend, and the temporary suspension of systems such as electronic litigation is an essential and normal part of ensuring safe and accurate migration."

In the case of the court, since data can be frequently changed due to electronic submission of litigation documents and nighttime duty document reception, if work is conducted without stopping the system, changes during data modification can cause discrepancies between pre- and post-change data, making it impossible to guarantee data consistency. If data changes during the migration process, migrated and non-migrated data may become mixed.

An official from the Administration Office said, "Problems occurred because the migration work was conducted in just one day, the holiday on the 1st, to coincide with the opening of the Rehabilitation Courts on the 2nd," adding, "There was no issue with the servers or other equipment."

Currently, all internal work systems including trial affairs, judicial support, warrants, as well as all public-facing systems such as the electronic litigation homepage, self-representation litigation, and electronic deposits are operating normally.

Electronic litigation was fully introduced in 2011 to reduce simple and repetitive tasks based on paper records and to guarantee procedural rights of the parties. The Court Administration Office is currently working to transition criminal cases to paperless electronic litigation starting in 2024.

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