e-Justice is based on e-Law

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e-Justiceis based on e-Law
By Anton Tomažic
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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

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Implementing AI

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

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Beyond Expert Systems

• They are not AI
• Self-correction
• Continuous learning
• Algorithms for recognition of legal rules
• Machine learning
• Meta data
• Legal KNOWLEDGE

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Legal Ontologies

• Core ontology
• Domain ontologies
• Semantic Web, OWL Web Ontology Language
• Dalos project (legislation)?
• CaseLex (exchange of case documents)?
• ICAIL, JURIX

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Procedures are ideal for AI

• Strong determination
• Administrative procedures (e-Government)?
• Judicial procedures
• User friendly

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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

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Improving Search

• Existing search engines are dumb
• They use statistics and other tricks
• First REAL legal search engine
• Unimagined new possibilities

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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

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Digitalisation of legal files

• Globalisation of Legal Services
• Three steps
• Pictures
• Data warehouses
• AI modules
• Multimedia

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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

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Online ADR!

• Online arbitration and mediation
• Checking with the virtual judge
• Fewer unnecessary legal actions
• Reducing the number of unnecessary law suits

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International project