e-Justiceis based on

e-LawBy Anton Tomažič

A New Era in Legal Information

•So far: “strings of characters”•IT can do much more•Recognizing the MEANING of the texts•Law: precise and determined•Language technologies•Artificial intelligence•Meta data•Man : computer

•General concepts•References•Automatic consolidation•Comparative law (EU)•Basis for expert systems•Modernization of Administration and Justice•Improved quality of Legal Information•Increased efficiency

Implementing AI

Beyond Expert Systems

•They are not AI

•Self-correction

•Continuous learning

•Algorithms for recognition of legal rules

•Machine learning

•Meta data

•Legal KNOWLEDGE

Legal Ontologies

•“Core ontology”

•Domain ontologies

•Semantic Web, OWL Web Ontology Language

•Dalos project (legislation)

•CaseLex (exchange of case documents)

•ICAIL, JURIX

Procedures are ideal for AI

•Strong determination

•Administrative procedures (e-Government)

•Judicial procedures

•User friendly

Improving Legislation

•Consistency and quality of legal texts

•Increased accuracy (reduced ambiguity)

•More precise and more dull

•Editors for legislative drafting

•Comparability and harmonization in the EU

Improving Search

•Existing search engines are “dumb”

•They use statistics and other “tricks”

•First REAL legal search engine

•Unimagined new possibilities

Complete Law in Your Pocket

•On DVD, USBs and hand-held devices

•Legal books, legislation, cases, articles

•When does it become legal KNOWLEDGE?

•Meta data

Digitalisation of legal files

•Globalisation of Legal Services

•Three steps–“Pictures”–Data warehouses–AI modules

•Multimedia

Modernisation of Courts

•Back office based on the legislation in force

•Automatic allocation

•Flow chart of court proceedings

•Alerting in case of changed legislation

•Drafting of court decisions

Online ADR!

•Online arbitration and mediation

•Checking with the “virtual judge”

•Fewer unnecessary legal actions

•Reducing the number of unnecessary law suits

International project