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The Rise of Digital Justice: Courtroom Technology, Public Participation and Access to Justice

Jane Donoghue

The Modern Law Review, Volume: 80, Issue: 6, Pages: 995 - 1025

Swansea University Author: Jane Donoghue

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/1468-2230.12300

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This article addresses a little discussed yet fundamentally important aspect of legal technological transformation: the rise of digital justice in the courtroom. Against the backdrop of the government’s current programme of digital court modernisation in England and Wales, it examines the implicatio...

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Published in: The Modern Law Review
ISSN: 00267961
Published: 2017
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