Since 2016 , the PARLe project of the Office de la protection du consommateur has made it feasible to settle consumer disputes between a consumer and a merchant based in Quebec without a judge. With more than 7800 consumers referred to the platform and a 70% success rate in resolving disputes, the PARLe OPC project has illustrated, long before the current period of confinement, […] Read more
At a time when the justice system is idling, the Cyberjustice Laboratory is brimming with innovations that are helping to speed up the process here in Canada and in France. Online court hearings, remote mediation, virtual courtrooms: the innovations of the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal are being […] Read more
The Joint Technology Committee (JTC) published a bulletin on January 28, 2020, containing various case studies on online dispute resolution (ODR). The committee notes that dozens, if not hundreds, of jurisdictions have implemented online dispute resolution mechanisms. Through seven case studies, it looks at the different possibilities available to courts to apply dispute resolution technology: […] Read more
The Cyberjustice Lab is pleased to announce the release of its new book "A Tale of Cyberjustice: A Modern Approach to Technology in the Canadian Justice System". This book traces the life cycle of the Towards Cyberjustice project, from its creation to its completion and continuation with the launch of the Autonomy Through Cyberjustice Technologies (ACT) project. This book is […] Read more
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Pavillon Chancellor-Day NCDH 102 (salle de classe Meighan)
As part of the AI and the Law Series cycle, Mcgill University is hosting Mr. Przemysław Pałka, who will discuss the possibility of automating the legal assessment of online consumer contracts in terms of service and privacy policies that a person encounters online thanks to the CLAUDETTE Project. For more information, click here. […] Read more
The Spring 2021 thematic issue will be edited by Rémi Boivin, a professor at the School of Criminology (Université de Montréal) and Annie Gendron, a researcher at the École Nationale de Police du Québec (the provincial police academy). This thematic issue aims to shift this debate from its current emphasis on police work, to a […] Read more
As part of the "Justice and Algorithms" week, the radio program LexLab made an inventory of AI innovations in Canada and particularly in Quebec. This episode brought together around a table, Pr Karim Benyekhlef - director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory - Pr Gregory Lewkowicz - ACT researcher - as well as Pr Marina Teller to discuss […] Read more
The Cyberjustice Laboratory is pleased to present you the largest international research project that aims to increase access to justice through artificial intelligence: the ACT research partnership, the empowerment of justice stakeholders through cyberjustice and artificial intelligence. Led by Professor Karim Benyekhlef, Director of the Laboratory, the ACT project is: A multidisciplinary and international partnership […] Read more
Hannes Westermann, member of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, coauthored with Karim Benyekhlef - director of the Laboratory - Jaromir Savelka, Vern R. Walker and Kevin D. Ashley a article intituled "Computer-Assisted Creation of Boolean Search Rules for Text Classification in the Legal Domain" which received the "Best Student Paper Award" mention at Jurix 2019. This is […] Read more
French only Consumer mediation in Quebec first developed in the Small Claims Division of the Court of Quebec, where a pilot project of mandatory mediation for consumer contracts was completed in May 2018. In November 2016, the Office de la protection du consommateur du Québec, in collaboration with the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the University of […] Read more
