{"id":2300,"date":"2017-03-16T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/order-in-the-court-digital-justice\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:26:18","slug":"order-in-the-court-digital-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/government\/2017\/03\/16\/order-in-the-court-digital-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Order in the court: digital justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two<\/a>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 adding computers and monitors.<\/p>\n

Court systems around the world traditionally have run on paper-based processes\u2014and the vast majority still do\u2014yet that\u2019s beginning to change. Judicial systems in the United Kingdom generated a million pages of documents a day before moving to a Microsoft cloud-based digital justice platform. In addition to saving significant costs of producing, transporting and storing large quantities of paper, the best outcome of going digital is 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 my 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\u2014and producing results. After just 12 months, the U.K.\u2019s digital justice platform has reduced more than 18 million paper documents 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:<\/p>\n