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E-filing? It's more paperwork, more cost Courts to slash e-filing fees after survey shows up variety of problems; even judges don't find system easy to use By Selina Lum and Karen Ho WHEN electronic filing arrived at Singapore courts three years ago, technology was meant to speed up the legal process, link lawyers' firms with the courts seamlessly and do away with paperwork. Now a survey of law firms has shown that things have not turned out that way at all. Advertisement Instead, the firms say e-filing has proven time-consuming, added to their workload and resulted in higher costs for clients. And even firms that embraced change most speedily are taking no chances - they still keep paper records of all their e-documents. Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced measures to improve the $29 million e-filing system, following recommendations by a review committee appointed by Chief Justice Yong Pung How earlier this year. The committee found that even judges and judicial officers did not use the system, and preferred to rely on hard copies of documents.
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