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Law, Justice and Development Week 2020: Urgency of Online Courts for Commercial Disputes

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Before there was COVID-19, a number of jurisdictions have created successful online courts specializing in resolution of civil and commercial matters including the UK, Canada, US, Australia and Singapore. These were referred to as one of the Online Dispute Resolution tools. With the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns, countries with necessary technology moved some parts of traditional courts online and the distinction between online courts and traditional courts became blurred. At the same time, the idea of online courts was not only to transfer existing processes online, but rather to rethink the way justice is delivered with a view to increase access to justice and bring it closer to an efficient public service rather than an outdated, slow and expensive process.

Perhaps, the pandemic is the catalyst required to rethink justice delivery and extend the concept of online courts to developing jurisdictions. The same approach used in the first jurisdictions of piloting online courts for small claims first may be used in the aspiring jurisdictions. In this session, speakers will discuss the opportunities, the blurred lines between remote courts and online courts, and the challenges of establishing online courts.

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Law, Justice and Development Week 2019

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Speakers

Sandie Okoro

Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General Counsel, Vice President for Compliance at the World Bank

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Michael Strauss

General Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Olena Kibenko

Judge of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
Klaus Decker

Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank
Richard Susskind OBE

President of the Society of Computers and Law, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute, and Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales UK

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Veronica Bradautanu

Principal Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development @EBRD