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Legal Serve was designed and developed to be an Electronic Court Filing (ECF), court e-filing, platform. It was a two-pronged approach. Firstly, to help legal practitioner with rising costs and Secondly, to help the courts deal with increasing volumes, and associated administrative functions.
An Electronic Court Filing (ECF) platform, is the automated transmission of legal documents from a legal practitioner, party or self-represented litigant to a court, and from a court back to the party, and from the legal practitioner or another user to another legal practitioner or other user of a legal document.
Source: Wikipedia.
An Electronic Court Filing (ECF) application does far more than its names says. Below are a few key examples of our service catalogue:-
- Postal services: Document delivery via Registered mail - digital or physical - e.g. Section 129, etc.
- Postal services: Document delivery via Normal mail - digital or physical - e.g. letters, notices, invoices, etc.
- Service (delivery)of documents - digital or physical - certificate of service is provided
- Court processing services - e.g. summons, motion, notice, judgement, filing, apply for a court date, etc.
- Indexing and pagination
- Court appearance
- Bill Of Cost
- and much more ...
Our services are available in all courts - constitutional, supreme court of appeal, appeal division of the high court, high court, Master of the high court and magistrate courts.
It was developed in consultation with many legal practitioners & other legal professionals for the legal profession. It is proprietary developed software that is purposely developed to address specific challenges facing the modern legal profession in South Africa.
It can easily be integrated into any existing platform. A good example would be CaseLines, via their own Application Program Interface (API).
It 100% proudly South African.
Operating within the legal boundaries, we find smart legal ways to simplify the way you a legal practitioner disseminates legal document(s), fulfil court processes, and consume postal services.
To highlight a few of your specific challenges we have addressed;
- Reduce costs = The platform is provided free to our clients. We also do not charge a user or firm license fee.
- Corporate Governance = All processed documents are stored offsite (King III), and connect be deleted, altered, or replaced.
- Digital Transformation = The changing of traditional physical practices.
- Productivity = Delivery of any legal document(s), with the automated creation of a proof of service or a track and trace report.
- Effectiveness = Digital postal services, the processing of registered letters, normal mail (snail mail) - processed through the SA post office.
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We provide services to the following vertical legal sectors; municipalities (government), banking, insurance, advocates, legal practitioners, insolvency practitioners, business rescue practitioners, property management organizations, and debt review and debt collection firms.
Legal Serve is not an e-mail or fax-based document delivery solution. We use SMS, email and fax for registered notifications.
Since 2013 we have been facilitating the digital processing of any legal document, and the eradication of standing in queues.
Legal Serve has judicial acceptance and our automated proof of service and track and trace reports are accepted as valid service and valid notice by all courts.
Yes, your documents are automatically authenticated as originals, by means of an LSSA Guidlines for Advanced Electronic Signatures (AES).
Yes, all notications are sent by means of a registered e-mail and/or registered SMS.
Yes, your documents will be accepted by any court. Legal Serve documents have judicial notice status.
Yes, Legal Serve supports and is the only enabler of access to justice (A2J).
Yes, you retain full control over your document workflow.
Yes, you have access to our national Serve Centre ("correspondent") network.
Yes, All our services are provided with a Service level.
Legal Serve is legal technology and legal innovation that has been helping and connecting legal professionals since 2013.