Claimant PC

Web service Central Database

XML transfer

Print/mail system

Printed claims

Defendant responds

Admit/offeror pay

Defend or further help

Court Helpdesk

Served by post

(Online defencesfrom 9.12.02)

Innovative Court Technology

Dr. Dory Reiling mag. iur.

Netherlands

Introduction

• Dory Reiling• Judge, 1st instance court in Amsterdam• Dutch judiciary information manager• Senior judicial reform expert World Bank• PhD on Tech support for judicial reform• Chair, knowledge systems user group • www.doryreiling.com• www.doryreiling.blogspot.com • @doryontour

Innovative Court Technology

• Evidence: technology in courts in Europe

• Court innovation

• Innovation with technology in courts

• My favorite innovation

CCJE survey 1 Practical court work

Judges

• write increasingly on computers

• About half use models, templates

• Some use voice recognition

Majority of courts

• monitor length

• keep statistics on individual judges

CCJE survey2 E-access to courts

• Some E-filing in half the member countries

• E-filing legislation in more than half

• Requirements vary

• Practice is low

• Except in Austria

State of IT innovation in courts in Europe

• Files are still paper • E-filing practice is low - except in Austria • Electronic files are mostly still

experimental • And so are electronic signatures• IT in oral hearings is low• Web services are the next frontier

CCJE survey 3 Reality check

IT and Court Innovation

• Hard to discuss between judges and management

• Individual cases

• Looking back

• A model that works

Outcome unpredictable?- +

-

+

1 title

2 notarial 3 settlement

4 judgment

Party relation

Cases are Different...

Outcome unpredictable?- +

-

+

1 title

2 notarial 3 settlement

4 judgment

Party relation

...But they have things in common

1 title

Outcome unpredictable?- +

-

+

2 notarial

35 %

30 % 9 %

8 %

Party relation

Distribution across case load

4 judgment

3 settlement

Source: NL Judicial Council statistics 2002-2007

1 title

Outcome unpredictable?- +

-

+

2 notarial

35 %

30 % 9 %

8 %

Party relation

Interventions

4 judgment

3 settlement

Source: NL Judicial Council statistics

1 title

Outcome unpredictable?- +

-

+

2 notarialParty

relation

Interventions for each group

4 judgment

3 settlementCase filingWeb guidance Negotiation software

Case filingElectronic filesKnowledge management

Case filingAutomated case processingWeb guidance

Case filingAutomated case processing

Most popular among judges: legal information on line

Traditional• National legislation• European legislation• National case law• International case

law • Law review articles

Innovative• LII’s • Court decision e-

archive• Wiki Juridica• Integration with

education• European Case Law

Identifier (ECLI)

Traditional legal information market

Legislator JudiciaryProducers

EducationJudiciaryLegal practiceConsumers

Publishers

Scholars

Legislator

ProducersAnd Consumers

Education

Judiciary

Legal practice Publishers

Scholars

Legal information market Innovation

Web services

Increasing interactivity1. Information service2. Downloadable forms3. Form e-filing4. Transaction5. Automation

Source: EU Benchmark for e-government

Claimant PC

Web service Central Database

XML transfer

Print/mail system

Printed claims

Defendant responds

Admit/offeror pay

Defend or further help

Court Helpdesk

Served by post

(Online defencesfrom 9.12.02)

My Favorite Innovation

Money Claim Online

TransactionInformation serviceFastAccess for new groups

Resources

• Int. Journal for Court Administration

Vol. 3 no. 2 January 2011

Vol. 4 no. 2 June 2012

• www.coe.int/ccje

• www.coe.int/cepej

• www.moneyclaim.gov.uk

• www.doryreiling.com