A cloud-based court filing system could replace the ‘costly‚ cumbersome’ current practice, according to Litigator MD Bruce Henderson‚ who said ‘court rules have been amended to permit electronic service of litigation documents and that attorneys must embrace digital systems’. According to a TimesLIVE report, Henderson also noted that‚ ‘in 2014‚ Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng called for the introduction of an electronic court filing system‚ to increase efficiencies‚ reduce costs and mitigate against the lost and stolen court documents’. An obstacle to this‚ he said‚ was ‘concerns as to the manner in which the service of documents is verified’. But ‘cloud-based systems...can confirm the serving of a document to all relevant parties and allow these parties to access these documents instantly anytime/anywhere’‚ said Henderson. Also of concern ‘is that by storing the original documents in the cloud‚ one is increasing the chances of those documents being accessed‚ altered or manipulated by parties acting in bad faith’. But Henderson countered this by saying ‘services and products are available that protect the integrity of the documents and arguably make them more difficult to alter or destroy than physical documents’.

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