Blockchain in courts

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2020: Courts in China began to use electronic locks with a blockchain for protection of proofs

At the beginning of July, 2020 messages that several courts in China began use of a system of electronic locks based on a blockchain for tracking and sealing up of the real estate appeared. It is supposed that it will allow to strengthen control of observed objects.

It is known that electronic locks already tested National court in the district of Haidian (Beijing) and different courts which are in the Provinces of Hunan, Jiangsu and Jiangxi. Thanks to it a solution blockchain courts can perform video surveillance behind the sealed real estate in real time. If any violations will be recorded, a system will automatically connect a video surveillance system and will notify law enforcement agencies on an incident.

Several courts in China began use of a system of electronic locks based on a blockchain for tracking and sealing up of the real estate

At detection of the malefactor a system in the automatic mode sdelayetf its photo will also send it to the special platform. Moreover, a solution blockchain it is equipped with automatic voice warning of legal effects of penetration into the sealed object.

Electronic locks have a rectangular form and the special external extending and narrowed grooves. It allows to set technology on any door, in independence of its size and material of which it is made. In addition to all above-mentioned functions the technology is also focused on continuous informing controlling about a current status of an observed object. Meanwhile it is unknown what blockchain is used in a new solution. But, it is worth noticing that the judicial system of the People's Republic of China already not for the first time addresses a blockchain. For example, at the end of 2019 information on use of technologies of the distributed register (DLT) and artificial intelligence for settlement of legal procedures appeared.^[1]

2019: The court for the first time pronounced a sentence, using proofs which are stored in a blockchain

At the end of November, 2019 it became known that the Shaosinsky court for the first time pronounced a sentence, using proofs which are stored in a blockchain system. The national court of the area Shanyuy successfully used technology of the distributed register to make sure of authenticity of proofs and to respond to the claim.

Case concerned a number of the fraudulent cases made by the defendant. The defendant acted in several Chinese provinces and earned about $1400. That a part of proofs got to a blockchain system and was successfully saved the prosecutor managed to prove to the judge justice of claims of claimants, and the defendant was sentenced to 14 months of imprisonment.

The Shaosinsky court for the first time pronounced a sentence, using proofs which are stored in a blockchain system

As speaks in local media, the digital proofs which are stored on a zhetsky disk can be lost at any time as the disk can be damaged or lost while preserving of data in hostless system pozvlyat not only to save them, but also to quickly check reliability.

The head of Court of Appeal of the area Shanyuy noted that the possibility of use of a blockchain for enciphering and storage of judicial data was confirmed with the Supreme national Court of China in 2018. Then the blockchain was for the first time used in judicial proceedings on civil and commercial cases, odako concerning criminal case new technologies were used for the first time.

Specialists remind that though the blockchain guarantees inviolability of data after entering into a system, it should be taken into account a possibility of manipulations with information before loading. As well as in a case with a compact disk, the source of proofs should be credible. However, with development of technologies this question will gradually sink Into oblivion too, data are even more often fixed directly from sensors thanks to Internet of Things.^[2]

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