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This content is not available in the selected language. Under the Council of Europe and European Union joint Action “Strengthening the efficiency and quality of justice in Kosovo” the representatives of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) travelled to Pristina on 21 and 22 February 2017 to support the development of the Court […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Le projet de plateforme d’aide aux règlements des litiges en ligne a le vent dans les voiles depuis son lancement en novembre. Le logiciel PARLe, conçu par le Laboratoire de cyberjustice de l’Université de Montréal, est en effet une plateforme de « règlement des litiges de consommation […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Cette année, les Québécois dépenseront environ 10 milliards de dollars en ligne. Près de la moitié des cyberacheteurs le feront cependant avec crainte, si l’on se fie aux sondages. Pourtant, en 2017, acheter en ligne est à bien des égards plus sûr que l’achat en magasin, constatent […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Back in November 2013, Sam Glover told Lawyerist readers that we could close the access-to-justice gap, but you’re not going to like it. Sam suggested (and I agree) that opening the market to providers outside the legal profession would substantially enhance access to justice, probably at […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. People guilty of “low level” offences in England and Wales will be able to accept and pay penalties and avoid having to appear before court under a new online process to be set up by the UK government. The “automatic online conviction procedure” will “provide a more efficient […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Let’s drop the notion of robot lawyer. Sure, it might sound more interesting than, say, an algorithm that enables the interpreting of contracts at a pace no human could ever keep up with, but isn’t the latter actually useful? Well, considering the previous statement, if you’re […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Ever since we started this regular column back in 2012, we’ve been defending a basic thesis: for consumer online dispute resolution (ODR) to succeed, it needs to be publicly funded and retailers need to be given a clear incentive to take part. This is the thesis […] Read more