InformationTechnology

Opportunities andchallenges

Digital is the new normal

Topics

• What IT?

• Court IT in Europe

• Opportunities

• Legal design thinking

• Artificial intelligence

• Challenges

What IT?

• Registration database

• Office automation

• Knowledge systems

• Work flow/case management

• Digital communication

• Web sites

• Network vs. System technology

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Court IT in Europe

• CEPEJ (Council of Europe) 2014 data

• Office technology 100%

• Digital Communication with lawyers 74%

• Digital filing for lawyers 74%

• Digital filing for others - experimental

• Fewer courts, more IT, more quality indicators

Source: CEPEJ 2016

Support for judges and staff

% member states with :• 100% basic support (Word processing, email, internet) 80%• Advanced automation tools 54%• Models/templates 63%• Dictation 35%• Central legislation database 76%• Central jurisprudence database 89%• Central online criminal register 78%• Intranet 59%• Online training 30%

Source: CEPEJ 2016

Administration and management

In all courts

Digital case registration 98% 25/46

Financial management 67% 23/46

Case load measuring 43%

Source: CEPEJ 2016

Digital communication

• National web sites 93%

• Recording hearings 87%

• Videoconferencing 85%

• Digital filing 74 %

• Communication with lawyers 74%

• Online case tracking 67%

• E-summoning 59%

• Requesting/awarding legal aid 26%

• Source: CEPEJ 2016

Communicating with lawyers about:

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• Decisions 84%

• Hearing dates 76%

• Filing cases 68%

• Before the hearing 64%

• Email 60%

• Website 60%

• Other 12%

Digital summons

• Website with secure access 65%

• Lithuania

• Sweden

• Email 59%

• Sms 29%

• Slovenia only civil

• Ukraine only criminal

Experimenting: e-filing for citizens

• 34 member states

• Portugal 100%

• Georgia, Switzerland implementing

• Italy just civil

• Austria?

Source: CEPEJ 2016

Online case tracking

• Who can track cases online?

• court?

• lawyers?

• parties?

• General public?

• We will come back to this example later

European Union

• Portal

• Ecli

• Payment order

• Small claims

New! European Case Law Identifier

EU Justice Portal ECLI search

Netherlands judiciary web site

• Only civil and commercial claims

• 1 party resides in a different EUmember state from the court

• Defending party can contest EOP innational court

European Order for Payment (EOP)

European small claims portal (ESCP)

• Max € 2000

• Money claims only

• 1 party resides in other EU memberstatethan court

• Service by registered mail

• Counterclaim possible

• Executable

E-codex

• e-CODEX supports overcoming the legalboundaries:

• e-CODEX provides easy access to cross borderjustice for Citizens, Business and LegalProfessionals in Europe

• Through a European digital infrastructure forsecure cross border communication in the fieldof justice

• Ernst Steigenga will tell us more

Online case tracking

• Who can track cases online?

• Court?

• Lawyers?

• Parties?

• General public?

Important

• Opportunities: what does IT do for courts andjudiciaries,

• Challenges:

• how IT can affect courts and judiciaries, and

• what the leadership of courts and judiciaries mustdo

• to ensure that IT initiatives succeed.

Challenges

• Governance

• Complexity

• Political

• Technical

• Court processes

• Program and project planning

• Culture

• What else?

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Experimenting needs cultural change

• Judicial and legal culture: who is to blame?

• Fault, shame, guilt are counterproductive

• Learning from what goes wrong does not go asexpected

• Cooperation, positive attitudes are needed

• Risk taking to be rewarded

Opportunities

• Improving access to justice

• Disintermediation

• Improving impartiality and integrity

• interaction with outside world

• Improving court processes

• Case management,

• Court management

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Access to justice - barriers

• Physical

• Economical

• Information

• People do not go to court on their own

• Court decision solves only 50% of the problems

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Access to justice – user focus

• What info?

• User needs

• Info for self help

• Expertise from someone

• Court decision

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Legal design thinking

• Discover the status quo

• Focus on a person

• (more later)

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Discovering the status quo

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Focus on a person

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Legal design thinking

• Discover the status quo

• Focus on a person

• Reframe the challenge

• Brainstorm wide

• Make sense and prioritize

• Prototype – lots of artificial intelligence

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Artificial intelligence

• Examples

• Proven AI for courts and justice

• What about article 6 ECHR?

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AI examples

• Structuring information

• Analysis

• Advisory

• Predicting

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Proven AI for courts and justice

• Structuring large case files

• e-discovery

• Advisory in Solution Explorer

• But can AI work with unstructured legal information?

• Predicting outcomes?

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Uitkomsten SCOTUS voorspellen:Daniel Katz

www.ravellaw.com

• Research tools

• Legal analytics

• Data services

• Judge profiles

What about due process?

• Article 6 ECHR

• Outcomes must be transparent

• How does AI reach its results?

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Themes for the breakoutgroups

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Opportunities

• Improving access to justice

• Improving impartiality and integrity

• interaction with outside world

• Improving court processes

• Case management,

• Court management

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Improving access to justice

• Sharing recent successes

• Sharing experiences

• How to overcome difficulties

• What help would you like

• And from whom?

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Improving impartiality and integrity

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• Sharing recent successes

• Sharing experiences

• How to overcome difficulties

• What help would you like

• And from whom?

Interaction with outside world

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• Sharing recent successes

• Sharing experiences

• How to overcome difficulties

• What help would you like

• And from whom?

Improving case management

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• Sharing recent successes

• Sharing experiences

• How to overcome difficulties

• What help would you like

• And from whom?

Improving court management

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• Sharing recent successes

• Sharing experiences

• How to overcome difficulties

• What help would you like

• And from whom?