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最高裁判所
The highest court, and the court of last resort on whether any law, order, regulation or official act conforms to the Constitution (Article 76, paragraph (1), and Article 81). That…
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 76, 79, 81, 98 and Wikipedia: Supreme Court of Japan as a reference.
簡易裁判所
One of the four kinds of lower court (下級裁判所) beneath the Supreme Court, with the high courts (高等裁判所), the district courts (地方裁判所) and the family courts (家庭裁判所) (Courts Act, Article…
Written by AI using Courts Act, Arts. 1, 2, 33 and Civil Mediation Act, Art. 3 as a reference.
上告
The appeal against a judgment of second instance, and against a high court's judgment at first instance: it goes to the Supreme Court (最高裁判所) against a final judgment a high court…
Written by AI using Code of Civil Procedure, Arts. 281, 285, 311 to 315, 318, 319, 321, 325 to 327 as a reference.
少額訴訟
A lawsuit in a summary court (簡易裁判所), heard and decided under rules of its own, on a claim to be paid money where the amount in dispute is 600,000 yen or less; the plaintiff asks f…
Written by AI using Code of Civil Procedure, Arts. 146, 368 to 381 and Civil Enforcement Act, Art. 22 as a reference.
送達
The delivery of a document in a court proceeding, such as a lawsuit, to the person it is for, by a procedure the law lays down: unless a provision says otherwise, the court carries…
Written by AI using Code of Civil Procedure, Arts. 98, 100 to 104, 106 to 112, 132-11, 138, 255, 285 as a reference.
A way of using an electronic data processing system (電子情報処理組織) or other information and communications technology, of a kind the Rules of the Supreme Court (最高裁判所規則) specify.
電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であって最高裁判所規則で定めるもの
The head of the body to which a person travelling abroad from Japan on an official passport (公用旅券) belongs (for an accompanying or later-joining spouse, child or employee, the body of the person they go with): the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the House of Councillors, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the President of the Board of Audit, the Prime Minister or a Minister, or the Minister for Foreign Affairs where that person belongs to none of those bodies.
…デジタル庁を除く。）、内閣府、デジタル庁及び各省をいう。以下同じ。）の長たる衆議院議長、参議院議長、最高裁判所長官、会計検査院長並びに内閣総理大臣及び各省大臣をいう。ただし、その者が各省各庁のいずれにも所属しな…
In Article 94, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 256, paragraph (3), an electronic or magnetic record (電磁的記録) that a court clerk (裁判所書記官) prepares, as the Rules of the Supreme Court (最高裁判所規則) provide, recording the date, time and place at which a person must appear, to notify them that they must appear on a court date (期日) the presiding judge has set.
裁判所書記官が、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、裁判長が指定した期日に出頭すべき旨を告知するために出頭すべき者において出頭すべき日時及び場所を記録して作成した電磁的記録
電子判決書
The electronic or magnetic record (電磁的記録) a court must create when it renders a judgment, recording the main text of the judgment (主文), the facts, the reasons, the date oral argument ended, the parties and their legal representatives, and the court.
In Article 19-2, a petition (申立て) or other statement (申述) made in civil enforcement proceedings.
申立て等
In Article 14-4, a petition or any other statement made in proceedings for a protection order (保護命令).
電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等
In Article 132-10, a motion or statement (申立て等) filed by recording the information that would go in the paper document into the court's computer files (ファイル), using an electronic data processing system (電子情報処理組織) the Rules of the Supreme Court (最高裁判所規則) specify.
A petition asking the Supreme Court (最高裁判所), under Article 318, paragraph (1), to accept a case as the court of final appeal (上告) on the ground that it involves an important question of interpreting laws and regulations, such as a judgment below that conflicts with precedent; it may not rest on the grounds set out in Article 312, paragraphs (1) and (2).
In Article 107, paragraphs (1) to (3), registered mail, or a correspondence delivery service (信書便) provided by a general or specified correspondence delivery operator under the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) that the Rules of the Supreme Court (最高裁判所規則) specify as equivalent to registered mail.
In Article 64-2, paragraphs (3), (5) and (6), a person who has applied, as Rules of the Supreme Court (最高裁判所規則) provide, to take part in a preliminary inspection (内覧), other than a person who lacks the qualification or capacity to buy the property or to whom other grounds those Rules set apply.
指定簡易裁判所
In Articles 397 to 399, a summary court (簡易裁判所) that the Rules of the Supreme Court (最高裁判所規則) designate as a court handling demand procedures (督促手続) under Part VIII, Chapter II, where an application for a demand for payment (支払督促) may be filed using an electronic data processing system (電子情報処理組織).
In Article 21, the document in which a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings must be made under Article 20, paragraph (1), stating the particulars the Rules of the Supreme Court (最高裁判所規則) specify.