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Video Conferencing in Swedish Courts Anders Hübinette, Ministry of Justice and Ulf Berggren, National Courts Administration
Ministry of Justice Sweden
History • Questioning via telephone since late 70’s • V.C. Pilot Scheme Act year 2000 • Pilot project the years 2000-2008 successful
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The new legislation I • Entered into force November 2008 • Benefits: - money- and time reducing - speedier trial - availability for the parties - easier to plan hearings
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The new legislation II • General application - criminal, civil and administration cases - all participants • Must be suitable in the case • Typical reasons for V.C.: - costs or other inconvenience - scared participant
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The new legislation III • The court has the final decision • Not voluntarily • Every examination recorded in District Court
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Number of Videoconference systems Swedish Judicial system District Court, Court of Appeal, The Supreme Court County Administrative Court, Administrative Court of Appeal, The Supreme Administrative Court 103 systems in total
Prosecution Authority 39 systems in total Prison and Probation Service 28 systems in total
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Videoconference camera
Far end - Camera picture
Touch-panel
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Control system
PC
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Touch-panel
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Touchpanel - Videoconference Pre-set positions
Far end picture
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Control system - Touchpanel
Integrated courtrooms Technologies • Video conferencing system • Audio/Video recording systems • A/V Conference facilities • Telephone conference system • Lighting • Failure announcement - SNMP
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Wide Area Network Swedish National Court WAN • IP-protocol • Quality of service • 768 kbps
External communication
IP -WAN
• ISDN • 384 kbps ISDN
Swedish authorities
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Videoconference infrastructure Courts
WAN
Gatekeeper
Primary gateway
Secondary gateway
ISDN
Call to external authorities 7
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Videoconference infrastructure in the future Courts
WAN
Gatekeeper
IP gateway WAN
IP gateway
Primary gateway
WAN
ISDN
Secondary gateway
External calls
European - authorities Swedish authorities 1
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The use of Videoconference • Point – to – Point – Court - Witness – Court - Victim
Finland
• Multi- Point
Norway
– Court – Prosecutor – Defence lawyer and the defendant
• Recording
Great Britain
– Far end camera
Germany Netherlands
Sweden
Poland
Luxembourg
• Share information – Document – Visualizer
Bulgaria
Spain
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Management system
• System status • Monitoring • Phone Book • Endpoint config.
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Videoconference calls from courtrooms – 2008 hh:mm/month Number of Videoconferencecall per month 2008
144:00 126:29
120:00 101:47
101:09
96:00 79:44 66:56
72:00 58:53
56:17
60:09
ng i s a e Incr Average
84:34
48:39
48:00
41:58 30:05
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February
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August September October November December
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Recording of examinations Recording - Cameras
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Video recording – touchpanel layout
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Reviewing video-recording
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