Citius is alive. Slow, but alive – Expresso

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“How long we will take to catch up No idea, it would be speculation to say weeks or months But it will take time, a long time..” The outburst is Vítor Mendes, director of the Northern District of Lisbon, which concluded on Tuesday migration of approximately 200 000 cases that were “stuck” in the old version of the computer system Citius the day they came into force the new map judiciary, September 1

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Between Monday and Tuesday, the IT team of the Ministry of Justice managed to migrate the processes that were still blocked in the counties, Lisbon and Porto Norte. And the migration went well. Or better: “It went generally well,” corrects Eduardo Loureiro, coordinator of the Public Prosecutor of the District of Porto. “The migration was successful, it is true, but the system is much slower than before. Accessing processes is difficult and complicated to work on them. Perhaps the situation is resolved in two or three days,” said the magistrate’s second largest county the country, which is not very favorable to the theory of chaos in the courts:. “While the system was blocked, it is obvious that there were delays and that the situation was very difficult for everyone and especially for people who needed to go to court but the . urgent proceedings, crime or family, for example, have never stopped here there was not a single case of parental regulation which has not been doing, “says the attorney

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“is precipitated say that the system is fully operational,” Elina critical Fraga, bastonária Bar Association. “We have a team that is monitoring migration in the ground and we know that migration is not fully completed and that the system is very slow and faltering. A sometimes works and sometimes not.” A representative of the lawyers still says “no communication” between enforcement officers and lawyers and “If a seizure is made, the lawyer can not know through Citius”. Worse: “If there is a judgment to implement an attachment, the lawyer can not make”

. <- End st_tag_p -> <- - begin st_tag_p!> According to a technician that MJ did not want to be identified, “the migration is completed on Tuesday with the transfer of the processes of the District of Faro”, where no fewer than 200 thousand cases are. Also in accordance with this responsibility, “only a small part of the process, some 20 000, were not migrated because they were so old that were not even numbers.” “Moreover, we can transfer all processes with all attachments.” The Express contacted the offices of the Minister of Justice, but Paula Teixeira da Cruz declined to make any comment about the end of the recovery plan for Citius

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The Citius IT system, developed by a group of judicial officials for more than ten years, collapsed when the new judicial map, which entered into force reduced the 231 to the current 23 counties was necessary to arrange the processes in the new map, but the operation went wrong because they tried to transfer all processes at the same time. As there were many that had incorrect data, the system locked up and there was no longer access old files open before the new judicial map. Ie, virtually all

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For over a month, the technical processes were transferring county to county, even managed to resurrect the computer system. Civil cases, they no longer have physical existence and exist only digitally, were the most affected. But there were problems in cases of work and family. The criminal cases, with prisoners, were not harmed

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Paula Teixeira da Cruz, who never have been informed of setbacks that have emerged and the lack of time to resolve any problems that arise, already announced it would initiate an inquiry to find out what happened – “until the last consequence.” It is the chapter that follows.

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