Benyekhlef Karim, Bailey Jane, Burkell Jacquelyn, Gélinas Fabien (eds.) eAccess to Justice

Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2016. — 412 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7766-2430-3How can we leverage digitization to improve access to justice without compromising the fundamental principles of our legal system? eAccess to Justice describes the challenges that come with the integration of information and communication technologies into our courtrooms, and explores lessons learned from digitization projects in Canada and abroad.
With contributions by leading experts in the field, the work is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on ways in which digitization projects can affect fundamental justice principles and emphasizes the complicated relationship between privacy and transparency in making court records and decisions available online. Part II, in turn, examines the implementation of digitization technologies in the justice system with a focus on four different technologies (e-filing, videoconferencing, tablets for presentation, and review of evidence by jurors). Finally, Part III explores the complex web of values, norms, and practices that support our systems of justice, the reasons for the well-established resistance to change, and the avenues and prospects of eAccess in the future.
eAccess to Justice is a must-read work that provides a unique and valuable framework for thinking about the implications of digitization and the legal system.Karim Benyekhlef — Introduction
Justice Values and Digitalization
Jane Bailey — Introduction: Fundamental Values in a Technologized Age of Efficiency
Renaud Beauchard — Cyberjustice and International Development: Reducing the Gap Between Promises and Accomplishments
Giampiero Lupo — Evaluating e-Justice: The Design of an Assessment Framework for e-Justice Systems
Graham Reynolds — The Role of Courts in Assisting Individuals in Realizing Their s. 2(b) Right to Information about Court Proceedings
Nicolas Vermeys — Privacy v. Transparency: How Remote Access to Court Records Forces Us to Re-examine Our Fundamental Values
Courtroom Interactions And Self-Empowerment
Jacquelyn Burkell — Introduction: Troubling the Technological Imperative: Views on Responsible Implementation of Court Technologies
Donald J Horowitz — ATJ Technology Principles: Access to and Delivery of Justice
Sherry MacLennan — Empowerment, Technology, and Family Law
Amy Salyzyn — The Case for Courtroom Technology Competence as an Ethical Duty for Litigators
David Tait and Meredith Rossner — Tablets in the Jury Room: Enhancing Performance while Undermining Fairness?
Toward New Procedural Models?
Fabien Gélinas — Introduction: Continuity and Technological Change in Justice Delivery
Pierre Noreau — The Old… and the New? Elements for a General Theory of Institutional Change: The Case of Paperless Justice
Daniel Weinstock — Cyberjustice and Ethical Perspectives of Procedural Law
Clément Camion — Three Trade-Offs to Efficient Dispute Resolution
Katia Balbino de Carvalho Ferreira — The Electronic Process in the Brazilian Judicial System: Much More Than an Option; It Is a Solution
Xandra E Kramer — Access to Justice and Technology: Transforming the Face of Cross-Border Civil Litigation and Adjudication in the EU
Guy Canivet — Postscript: eAccess to Justice – Brief Observations