On 17 January 2012, within the conference “New IT technologies as support for the criminal trial” held at the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Poznan, the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) presented the report “E-tools for criminal case management within selected EU Member States”.

The conference was organised by the Faculty of Law and Administration of AMU represented by prof. UAM dr hab. Paweł Wiliński, and Appellate Prosecution in Poznań, in whose name appeared Appellate Prosecutor Sławomir Twardowski. During the conference Mr Piotr Karlik delivered the speech “E-tools for criminal case management within selected EU Member States”.

The conference was attended by 98 persons some of them being prosecutors from District Prosecution Office in Poznań, Zielona Góra and Konin. They expressed the need for further discussions on the implementation of electronic tools, which confirms both the importance and significance of new solutions for streamlining the criminal process.

The event was organised in the framework of the Project “Tracking Progress in Strengthening the Criminal Justice Indicators for Integrated Case Management (e-Tools)” implemented by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Droit au Droit, Adam Mickiewicz University (PL), with the assistance of the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO), and supported by the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Union.

For more information and recent updates on the project please visit: http://www.e-tools-project.org/