Legal regulation of electronic litigation procedures in economic courts According to the Law No. 120 of 2008 on the Establishment of Economic Courts As amended by Law No. 146 of 2019.

In fact, the tremendous technological development has led many countries, including Egypt, towards digitization in all fields, especially the digitization of the judicial facility. Hence, several terms have recently appeared that are not familiar to law books, such as “electronic judiciary,” “electronic courts,” “digital judiciary,” “virtual courts,” and other terms related to the digitization of the judicial system, where all litigation procedures are applied via The electronic court is mediated by computers connected to the Internet and via e-mail for the purpose of quickly adjudicating cases and facilitating its procedures for litigants. Despite the advantages of this system, there are many technical and legal challenges facing it. The Egyptian legislator began the first step towards digitizing the judicial facility by issuing Law No. 146 of 2019, which includes amending Law No. 120 of 2008 establishing economic courts, which regulated the issue of electronic litigation before economic courts. In fact, the electronic economic lawsuit goes through a number of judicial procedures before the economic courts, which begin with the registration procedures in the unified electronic register of the economic courts, and end with the ruling in this lawsuit.