Bureaucracy arrgh
Oct. 20th, 2019 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaSo I have been involved in various court cases as the representative of my environmental organization in the last few years, since I am one of the spokespersons. (This does not mean I write the legal arguments...). Being the representative has so far just meant that I handle the correspondence.
Anyway, one of our cases has now advanced through the three levels of the Swedish court system and ended up in the EU court. Wow, sudden culture clash: to send in documents to them electronically you need a login to their electronic system. To get that, you print out and fill in a form along with some document proving you are indeed the representative in the case, and then you send these forms to them by mail and they process the forms. And then hopefully you get your login.
In the Swedish courts you just email them your documents. WTF is your problem with email, EU court?? I mean, theoretically without those hoops I guess it would be easier for anyone to email them and pretend to be me, but Swedish courts don't seem to have problems with that happening.
I complained about this to my German flatmate and he was all: you mean you can just email the court in Sweden? Obviously customs vary...
ETA: ..and now I just got an email from a lawyer in another environmental organization who said he found the process of getting such a login to be "horribly complicated". /o\
Anyway, one of our cases has now advanced through the three levels of the Swedish court system and ended up in the EU court. Wow, sudden culture clash: to send in documents to them electronically you need a login to their electronic system. To get that, you print out and fill in a form along with some document proving you are indeed the representative in the case, and then you send these forms to them by mail and they process the forms. And then hopefully you get your login.
In the Swedish courts you just email them your documents. WTF is your problem with email, EU court?? I mean, theoretically without those hoops I guess it would be easier for anyone to email them and pretend to be me, but Swedish courts don't seem to have problems with that happening.
I complained about this to my German flatmate and he was all: you mean you can just email the court in Sweden? Obviously customs vary...
ETA: ..and now I just got an email from a lawyer in another environmental organization who said he found the process of getting such a login to be "horribly complicated". /o\
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Date: 2019-10-20 11:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-10-21 08:35 pm (UTC)Also, I have realized that it is possible we will have to go to Luxemburg to actually address the court, which sounds scary.