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Harvard Law School has clearly cottoned on to the value of Richard Susskind. Earlier this year, they gave him a virtual book launch for Online Courts and the Future of Justice. And apparently got a world wide audience of over 1,000. On Friday, its Center on the Legal Profession had him back again to front … Continue reading Richard Susskind, Harvard Law School and Remote Courts: The Lamborghini and the Brits
JusticeConnect is a feisty Australian legal NGO that has come up with a number of interesting technological innovations in the access to justice field. This month, it has announced a Not-for-Profit Rules Tool which, for both personal and professional reasons, has got me rather excited. This is because I mix an interest in technology with … Continue reading An Australian Initiative Tested by Essex Vegetables
An app, Legal Tune Up, developed for a Not for Profit consortium, has attracted the praise of the doyen of US legal tech commentators. Bob Ambrogi reported its launch earlier this month. He called it ‘unique’. It is, indeed, impressive and hopefully a forerunner of the sort of development of which we will see more. … Continue reading Legal Tune Up and Just Capitalism
Attitudes to technology in access to justice might beneficially follow the trajectory of the earlier debate about the best way to deliver legal aid services. Back in the day – which, for this purpose would be roughly between 1970 and 2000 – there was rigorous debate about which form of legal aid delivery was the … Continue reading The Future may be Blended
1 October BC’s Shannon Salter commends ABA’s paper on ODR in the US, noting the rise in court-annexed projects – like her own Civil Resolution Tribunal – where ‘almost 2/3 of new projects were added in 2018-2019’. The Public Law Project warns ‘that millions of EU citizens with settled status may face discrimination and other problems … Continue reading October 2020 – stories that you might have missed