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The auditability of information systems plays an essential role in public administration. Information system accesses are saved in log files so auditors can later inspect them. However, there are often distinct stakeholders with different roles and different levels of trust, namely the IT Department that manages the system and the government ministries that access the logs for auditing. This scenario happens at the Portuguese judicial system, where stakeholders utilize an information system managed by third-parties. This paper proposes using blockchain technology to make the storage of access logs more resilient while supporting such a multi-stakeholder scenario, in which different entities have different access rights to data. This proposal is implemented in the Portuguese Judicial System through JusticeChain. JusticeChain comprises the blockchain components and blockchain client components. The blockchain …