Università Roma Tre

1. Acts of Civil Procedure (Identification. Characteristics. Classification. Written acts, oral acts and material activities. Forms of procedural documents and "telematic process". Digital acts, analogic acts, and mixed acts. Copies and duplicates of documents. Deadlines. Place of completion of the procedural documents. Paper-based hearing and videoconference hearing. Communications and notifications. Telematic court communications and notifications. The power of notification of the bailiff and the lawyer. The traditional notifications of the bailiff. The electronic notifications of the bailiff. The analogic notifications of the lawyer. The electronic notifications of the lawyer. Special forms of notification. Telematic filing. The electronic dossier of procedural documents).

2. Nullity of Procedural Acts (General characteristics. Relevance of nullity. Achievement of the purpose of the act and irrelevance of nullity. Relative nullities. Nullities that can be detected also ex officio. Principles of extension of nullities and preservation of procedural acts. Renewal of null act. Issues of nullity and conversion of nullities into grounds for appeal. Nullity of notification. Nullity and related concepts).

3. Evidence (Acquisition of documentary evidence. Evidentiary incidents related to documents. Digital aspects of evidentiary procedure. Evidentiary procedure concerning digital objects).

One textbook to be chosen from the following:
G. RUFFINI (editor), Civil Procedural Law, Il Mulino, Bologna 2023, Volume I, Chapters 7, 8, 16.
G. RUFFINI (editor), Telematic Process in the Civil Procedural Legal System, Giuffré, Milan 2019, Chapters 1, 4, 5.

The consultation of an updated edition of the code of civil procedure including special legislation is essential.