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New Practical Tools for Judges using Emerging Technologies

JIN ASEAN developed new tools for judges in the region to better equip judges and judiciaries for the opportunities and challenges of new technologies. This Toolkit is designed to respond to the recommendations in the report Emerging Technologies and Judicial Integrity in ASEAN. The report and the Toolkit are based on ideas and requests from judges across the region who answered JIN ASEAN's survey about how emerging technologies are affecting judicial excellence.

Judges identified the need for information and specific tools to help judges engage in the evolution of court operations. The tools provide a primer on new technologies and their impact on judicial integrity and identify ways for judges to bring their leadership and expertise on rights protection, rule of law and equality to the introduction of new technologies into court processes and operations.

JIN ASEAN's Emerging Technologies Toolkit can be used to:

  • Build judicial understanding of specific emerging technologies and their use in court processes and operations.
  • Create a common understanding of new court technologies.
  • Build understanding of the appropriate role for judges in the procurement process
  • Highlight how well-designed procurement can protect judicial excellence
  • Ensure that judicial excellence is a key priority in court technology design and implementation
  • Help judges to scrutinize the technology in use in their courtroom
  • Develop common expectations of technology in the courtroom, whether in-person or online
Download the Toolkit

Spotlight on the Tools:
Understanding Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

This is one of the tools in the toolkit. It is designed to give judges a foundation in how artificial intelligence is being used in courts. It includes key definitions and examples of court applications of machine learning. It considers artificial intelligence from the perspective of judicial excellence and lists positive and negative implications. 

Who is this tool designed for?
  • Judges interested in understanding AI in the court
  • Judges involved in decisions about new technologies in their courts
  • Judiciaries considering machine-learning tools in their courts
Missed the launch of the Report?

The full Emerging Technologies and Judicial Integrity in ASEAN report looks at artificial intelligence, case management, online forms, and virtual hearings. It provides recommendations for regional support and court-level changes to practices to ensure that judges can promote rule of law and trial fairness in technology-mediated processes.
 
These nine recommendations include strategies to build the capacities of individual judges to understand the impact of new technologies on rights in the courtroom and take leadership in the planning and implementation of new technologies.
 
You can watch the recording of the September webinar here. 
Download the Report
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam have joined JIN ASEAN with Lao PDR exploring membership. JIN ASEAN engages judges by conducting research, holding events and responding to the needs identified by those involved. 
 
In 2018-19 JIN ASEAN worked closely with the International Consortium for Court Excellence to produce the Judicial Integrity Checklist, a self-assessment tool for courts, that now has also been integrated into the International Framework for Court Excellence Checklist. 

JIN ASEAN has also engaged the judiciary on comparative responses to the pandemic and has participated in global discussions about judicial integrity. JIN ASEAN cooperates with the UNODC’s Global Judicial Integrity Network. The activities of the JIN ASEAN are supported by the U.S. State Department through INL and the UK Government ASEAN Economic Reform Programme through the FairBiz project. For more information visit our webpage.
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