Justice Technology Industry

In tune with the needs of the time, the field of law has slowly, but inevitably inculcated technology into its processes. This has birthed Justice Technology as the niche industry that deals with the complex web of applications, web-based programs and systems that have now come to aid the practice of mainstream law. 

Scope of Justice Technology 

The use of expert technology in the field of law has made sure that the routine or mundane legal tasks that would normally have required the expertise of a skilled lawyer, can now be easily executed by anyone and everyone – freeing up lawyers to take on more pressing and important matters. The online and equitable nature of it all has in many ways improved access to justice; reducing the cost, time and human resources that are spent in conventional practices. And finally, with the adoption of justice technology, not only do law firms and practitioners get to lower their expenses and increase returns in terms of the volume of cases they can now take on, they also get to strengthen their reputation, mould their practice for the future and blaze the trail for generations to come.  

What to Expect from Justice Technology? 

Emerging in the age of the pandemic that disrupted many traditional practices, here’s what we can expect of justice technology in the coming days: 

• Online Dispute Resolution becomes the norm for the swift dispersal of justice  
• Criminal justice is meted with advanced data analysis  
• Artificial Intelligence finds its use in a variety of applications in justice delivery – from predictive analysis to online moderation of offensive content. 

• Virtual courts (as witnessed during the pandemic) continue to remain in session alongside the in-court hearings in a hybrid model. 

This year, and the subsequent decade, amongst many other developments in law, a number of innovations in Justice Technology promise to revolutionise the legal world as we know it.