State Court cases adjourned or handled manually due to computer system down for almost 2 days
SINGAPORE: The State Courts' computer system is undergoing emergency recovery after being scheduled for"urgent maintenance" for over 24 hours, causing cases to be adjourned or handled manually.
Several cases on Tuesday were adjourned as a result of the technical issues. The ICMS is used by judges, lawyers and prosecutors to keep electronic records of the case, upload documents and arrange for future mentions of the case, among other things. He said a bigger issue was how the system lags and a lot of time is spent trying to upload documents because it"always shows 'error'".
"Also, there are a host of issues ranging from being unable to download documents, to difficulties uploading documents," he said. "I recall a time whereby case documents were difficult to access and visibility into the latest status or documents of a case was quite unheard of," he said. "Subject to the rules of evidence and disclosure of course, ICMS supports a particular tenet of natural justice by facilitating an accused person to know the allegations mounted against them and the underlying disclosable supporting case documents," he said.
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