Dubai International Financial Centre Courts first fully digital court in emirate

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts said on Monday that all its internal processes and customer-facing services were now operating fully digital.
Following the launch of the Dubai Paperless Strategy in 2018, the DIFC Courts accelerated the integration of all services into its extensive digital infrastructure, DIFC said in a statement.
Announced the same week as the launch of the Paperless Strategy, the DIFC Courts initiated the introduction of ‘paperless trials’, implementing the region’s first Courts eBundling system, the statement said.
The eBundling system allows court documents to be uploaded from anywhere in the world, enabling judges, lawyers, and courts staff to access case information in various formats, across multiple locations, and share with numerous users.
Among the many technologies the Courts has pioneered to re-engineer and increase access to justice, is the region’s first eRegistry in 2009, as well as digitally integrated courtroom and state-of-the-art eCourt Management System in 2017, the statement added.
In May 2021, the DIFC Courts became Dubai’s first fully paperless entity by acquiring the qualified electronic seal solution Ethaq, a paperless initiative that enables digital authenticity of documents with the support of UAE PASS.
UAE PASS is the secure national digital identity platform for the United Arab Emirates.
The electronic seal Ethaq also reinforces the security and integrity of the documentation and eradicates tampering of official documents, enabling users to digitally verify the authenticity of any legal documents, the statement said.