Digitalization of legal proceedings: illusions and reality
Keywords:
informatization, digitalization, justice, procedural form, information literacy, hardware and software, artificial intelligenceAbstract
The article shows the main problematic and promising issues of digitalization and informatization of judicial activity. The widespread terms "electronic justice" and "digital law-justice" are criticized as incorrect, since digitalization affects the form of the process, but does not change the essence of justice, the main content of which is the protection of the rights and legally protected interests of subjects of legal relations. The judge is the bearer of judicial power and cannot be fully replaced by any technology. Attention is drawn to the problems of technical and software support of judicial activity, as well as in general informatization and information literacy of citizens. Based on the practice of the PRC, the need to introduce e-mail addresses and mobile phone numbers as additional identifiers is shown, which will speed up and improve the efficiency of information exchange between participants in the process and the court. Proposals are substantiated on the need to use artificial intelligence in preparing a case for trial and issuing a court order. The position on the possibilities of artificial intelligence for reconciliation of parties, as an original and more familiar form for a modern person, was supported.