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COURTS IN A DIGITAL WORLD - THE CONCEPT OF "JUSTICE WITHOUT WALLS"

Lea Podor

First published: 2024https://doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2024/fs01.03View metrics

Abstract

Technological change is transforming traditional perceptions of judging. There is an interesting and complex dilemma: when will the era of online courts arrive, and firstly what consequences will it have for the interpretation of the right to a fair trial, including the requirement of publicity of court proceedings? There is no doubt that the emergence of online courts brings a new chapter in the concept of the "ideal space for justice". This novelty challenges the constitutional institutions and may requires the creation of a new organisational and procedural model. This paper aims to concentrate on the new aspect of “justice without walls”: online courts, online proceedings. To demonstrate their nature, the paper seeks to answer the question: how does online judging and online space shed light on the discourse of open justice? In order to answer this question, the paper first takes a cultural-historical approach to the relationship between the space for adjudication and the public sphere, and then formulates a legal-theoreticalconstitutional-law explanation of the concepts of public sphere. Using all these insights, it seeks to point out the advantages of online adjudication and the important changes that are likely to occur in the future, which will have an impact on traditional perceptions of judging.

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Title
COURTS IN A DIGITAL WORLD - THE CONCEPT OF "JUSTICE WITHOUT WALLS"
Authors
Lea Podor
Proceedings
Proceedings of 11th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences - ISCSS 2024
Publisher
SGEM WORLD SCIENCE (SWS) Scholarly Society
Year
2024
Pages
11-18
SWS Citekey
Podor202411111
ISSN
2682-9959
ISBN
978-3-903438-10-1
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Proceedings contents
Open official contents
Keywords
online courtsright to a fair trialpublicity„justice without walls”law and technology
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