The Implementation of e-Court during The Covid-19 Pandemic as An Effort to Support The Contante Justitie Principle

Abstract

This study aims to uncover and examine the implementation of the electronic justice system (E-Court) during the Covid-19 pandemic as an effort to support the Content Justitia principle in the Religious Courts of Gorontalo City Class 1A, and the factors that hinder its implementation. The type of this research is empirical law, which uses a qualitative approach method, with Primary Data sources obtained directly from the main sources, namely several respondents from among Judges, Class 1A Gorontalo Municipal Religious Court Employees, advocates and several people who have had litigation, as well as strengthened by Secondary Data, in the form of theoretical studies that are relevant to the context of the problem. The results showed that the implementation of the Electronic Justice System (E-Court) during the Covid-19 Pandemic at the Gorontalo Class 1A Religious Courts was comprehensively in accordance with the Contantia Justitia principle or simple justice, fast and low cost, because it was implemented from the time of admission and registration. case until the reading of the case decision is carried out electronically using an online application that has been officially developed by the Supreme Court such as e-Filling (case registration), e-Payment (cause down payment), e-Summons (Summons of Parties), e-Litigation (trial), e-Copy (Copy of Decision), and e-Sign (Signature), and supported by online communication channel applications such as zoom cloud meetings, google meet, e-mail, even telephone lines.