Until now, lawyers who want to check the status of a judicial investigation, for example to prepare a hearing of the council chamber or the indictment chamber, can only physically view the file at the court registry.
That will change from February 1, Van Tigchelt announced. Since June 2022, criminal files can be viewed digitally via the JustConsult application on Just-on-web, but this only applied to files in which the investigation has been closed. From now on, lawyers will also be able to view criminal files during the judicial investigation. They had been asking for this for some time, according to Van Tigchelt.
The minister emphasizes that not all files are already available digitally. Some judicial districts are further along in this regard than others, he emphasizes. The files in the research phase can only be viewed, not printed.
Since the launch of JustConsult in June 2022, the counter has reached 200,000 digital accesses. Last year there was an average of 507 inspections per day.