Our court system is struggling. It is too costly to deliver justice
for all but the few, too slow to satisfy those who can access it. Yet
the values implicit in disputes being resolved in person, and in
public, are fundamental to how we have imagined the fair resolution of
disputes for centuries. Could justice be delivered online? The idea
has excited and appalled in equal measure, promising to bring justice
to all, threatening to strike at the heart of what we mean by justice.
With online courts now moving from idea to reality, we are looking at
the most fundamental change to our justice system for centuries, but
the public understanding of and debate about the revolution is only
just beginning. In Online Courts and the Future of Justice Richard
Susskind, a pioneer of rethinking law for the digital age, confronts
the challenges facing our legal system and the potential for
technology to bring much needed change. Drawing on years of experience
leading the discussion on conceiving and delivering online justice,
Susskind here charts and develops the public debate. Against a
background of austerity politics and cuts to legal aid, the public
case for online courts has too often been framed as a business case by
both sides of the debate. Are online courts preserving the public
bottom line by finding efficiencies? Or sacrificing the interests of
the many to deliver cut price justice? Susskind broadens the debate by
making the moral case (whether online courts are required by
principles of justice) and the jurisprudential case (whether online
courts are compatible with our understanding of judicial process and
constitutional rights) for delivering justice online.
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ISBN
9780192575357
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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