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Dear Law professional,

The JUMAS Project has been financed by the Commission of the European Communities in the framework of the Information Society Technologies (IST) R&D Programme. The Jumas Consortium is composed by several European Organisations, including Ministries of Justice, private Companies, Universities and Research Institutes, sited in Italy, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Poland.

The main goal of is to propose an IT-based solution that could solve some drawbacks that currently affect EU criminal Law Courts, and then improve the overall effectiveness of daily Court activities, such as recording a deposition, sharing an information, retrieving a document, examining an evidence, consulting a folder, etc. The project aims at developing an integrated system for the acquisition of audio/video depositions within courtrooms, the archiving of heterogeneous documents, the information retrieval and the synchronised audio/video/text consultation. Supporting such a system with applications based on Web technologies will guarantee the dissemination of information to authorised users (according to access rights), in real-time and through an user-friendly interface.

The Project Consortium is now in the process of analysing the needs and requirements that future users of the Jumas system will present. This is a fundamental task for a user-driven project like Jumas aims to be. For this reason, we have selected a group of Law professionals, coming from various Organisations (Ministries of Justice, Law Firms, Universities, Research Institutes, etc.) in different European Countries, to whom we are addressing this questionnaire. You were personally chosen because we believe that Your professional experience and skills will guarantee an useful and significant contribution for the effectiveness of the Project. Therefore we kindly ask You for input on activities connected with the criminal procedure rules of your country, and in particular to give us Your opinion on the actual workflow pertaining to the trial phase; advantages and drawbacks that You have been daily facing; how the current working conditions meet Your need in terms of effectiveness, response times, automatisation, information sharing, etc. and whether You think that an IT-based solution may improve these issues.

This questionnaire has been designed to cover the point of view of several categories of End Users: obviously not all sections are applicable to each of them. For this reason, You may find some questions that don’t concern specifically Your particular working dominion: the whole questionnaire must be answered on a “if applicable” base. We are enclosing the objectives and description of the Jumas Project, as well as the questionnaire forms that, once You have kindly filled it in, should lead us to identify the characteristics of an IT-based system, in terms of user requirements and needs. We believe that only through a significant users' feedback we could obtain an IT system that really provides solutions for Your problems and needs.

You can input Your comments by filling in and returning us the enclosed questionnaire. This way, You will gain privileged access to information on the project progress and achievements. At the same time, You may have the possibility to be invited, in case you express an interest in the Jumas Project, to all the informative workshops and dissemination actions the Consortium intends to carry out in the future. Thank You for Your time and co-operation.

We are looking forward to any comments and observations.

The JUMAS Consortium