1. Web service Central Database
Innovative Court Technology
Claimant PC Print/mail system
XML
transfer
(Online defences
Court Helpdesk
from 9.12.02)
Admit/offer Defend or
or pay Dr. Dory Reiling mag. iur.
further help Printed claims
Netherlands
Defendant responds Served by post

2. 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

3. Innovative Court Technology
• Evidence: technology in courts in Europe
• Court innovation
• Innovation with technology in courts
• My favorite innovation

4. 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

5. CCJE survey
2 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

6. CCJE survey
3 Reality check
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

7. IT and Court Innovation
• Hard to discuss between judges and
management
• Individual cases
• Looking back
• A model that works

8. Cases are Different...
- Outcome unpredictable? +
-
1 title 4 judgment
Party
relation
2 notarial 3 settlement
+

9. ...But they have things in common
- Outcome unpredictable? +
-
1 title 4 judgment
Party
relation
2 notarial 3 settlement
+

10. Distribution across case load
- Outcome unpredictable? +
-
35 % 8%
1 title 4 judgment
Party
relation 2 notarial 3 settlement
30 % 9%
+
Source: NL Judicial Council statistics 2002-2007

11. Interventions
- Outcome unpredictable? +
-
35 % 8%
1 title 4 judgment
Party
relation 2 notarial 3 settlement
30 % 9%
+
Source: NL Judicial Council statistics

12. Interventions for each group
- Outcome unpredictable? +
- Case filing Case filing
Automated case Electronic files
processing Knowledge management
1 title 4 judgment
Party
relation 2 notarial 3 settlement
Case filing Case filing
Automated case Web guidance
processing Negotiation software
+ Web guidance

13. Most popular among judges:
legal information on line
Traditional Innovative
• National legislation • LII’s
• European legislation • Court decision e-
• National case law archive
• International case • Wiki Juridica
law • Integration with
• Law review articles education
• European Case Law
Identifier (ECLI)

14. Traditional legal information market
Producers Legislator Judiciary Scholars
Publishers
Consumers Legal practice Judiciary Education

15. Legal information market Innovation
Legislator
Scholars Education
Legal practice Publishers
Judiciary
Producers
And
Consumers

16. Web services
Increasing interactivity
1. Information service
2. Downloadable forms
3. Form e-filing
4. Transaction
5. Automation
Source: EU Benchmark for e-government

17. My Favorite Innovation
Web service Central Database
Claimant PC Print/mail system
XML
transfer
(Online defences
Court Helpdesk
from 9.12.02)
Admit/offer Defend or
or pay further help Printed claims
Defendant responds Served by post

18. Money Claim Online
Transaction
Information service
Fast
Access for new groups

19. 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