The omissions of the Hessian Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann (CDU) in the introduction of electronic files in the courts will also occupy the state parliament.

The opposition SPD parliamentary group submitted an urgent report request on Friday, which the Union politician will most likely have to comment on at the next meeting of the state parliament's legal policy committee.

Ewald Hetrodt

Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung in Wiesbaden.

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The SPD parliamentary group reacted to the reporting in this newspaper this week with 47 questions.

According to this, the introduction of the e-file in Hesse will be delayed by six years.

As a result, lawyers, notaries and authorities have had to submit their pleadings to the courts electronically since the beginning of the year.

There, however, the procedures are still conducted on the basis of paper files.

Serious harm to the taxpayer

The SPD is now asking why the planned costs of digitization have increased from around 37 million euros in 2015 to 168 million.

She also inquires about the reasons for the doubling of the running time of the program.

Why weren't the requirements specified from the start?

Is there a schedule?

These are further questions of the application, which also wants the role of the Digital Ministry to be clarified.

The pilot projects of the program are also discussed.

The SPD parliamentary group asks whether they have been evaluated and, if so, what difficulties have arisen.

With regard to the entire process, the Social Democrats miss “an exact breakdown of the planning of time, costs, personnel or construction measures”.

In any case, the damage to taxpayers weighs heavily, states the Social Democratic parliamentary group leader Günter Rudolph.

It is also of great interest for employees in the judiciary and lawyers to know the concrete concept of the state government.