The government announced a plan Wednesday to modernize the court process in Ontario, a system that still largely relies on paper and the fax machine. Among the proposed changes: Wi-Fi in the province’s 74 major courthouses by 2019, with the government saying that due to the fact that many are old buildings, Wi-Fi installation will take time. “The last big innovation in our justice system was when we moved from typewriters to desktops, paper filings to faxes,” Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said Wednesday, when he announced the plan at Ryerson University’s Legal Innovation Zone. “That’s old news. I think a lot of you will recognize that, and that’s why we at the Ministry of the Attorney General are so committed to making sure that we modernize, and take those practical, foundational steps necessary to make the system more user-friendly.”Naqvi said Wednesday that building on the success of a pilot project at six locations earlier this year, the government has now expanded a service provincewide that allows people to file statements of claim in civil matters online.

Source: thestar November 29, 2017 22:07 UTC