{"id":412,"date":"2017-03-16T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/industry\/2017\/03\/16\/order-in-the-court-digital-justice\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:55:07","slug":"order-in-the-court-digital-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/government\/2017\/03\/16\/order-in-the-court-digital-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Order in the court: digital justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From my previous 19 years in law enforcement, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in courtrooms. When I think about all the courtrooms I\u2019ve seen, they\u2019re more or less the same as they were 200 years ago, except for the addition of computers and monitors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Court systems around the world have traditionally run on paper-based processes \u2013 and the vast majority still do \u2013 yet that\u2019s beginning to change. Judicial systems in the\u202fUnited Kingdom generated a million pages of documents a day<\/a>\u202fbefore moving to a Microsoft cloud-based digital justice platform. In addition to significant cost savings in terms of producing, transporting and storing large quantities of paper, the best outcome of going digital is that the data becomes easily accessible, free from paper silos, and available for analysis and interrogation to find relevant judicial hearings and decisions, case law, legal trends and more. (See more details in\u202fmy blog on e-justice<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Digital justice\u2014a trend around the globe<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m pleased to see digital transformation is a growing trend in courts around the globe \u2013 and producing results. After just 12 months, the UK\u2019s digital justice platform has reduced the number of paper documents from more than 18 million, which were related to 100,000-plus cases involving 18,500 registered users. In addition to moving from paper to a digital environment, courts also are innovating with other modern technologies:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n