TECHNOLOGY IN THE COURTS: FROM STORING AND GENERATING INFORMATION TO EVALUATION OF EVIDENCE

Abstract

The present study intended to explore the various uses of modern technology in the courts and to advance the argument that the courts should use the literature produced in artificial intelligence and law to reasoning with judicial evidence. After deploying doctrinal research methodology, the present study found that the courts across the world used modern technology to store, process, generate and analyze judicial data. The current study also found that the use of modern technology in the courts resulted in improvement in communicating, storing, generating, processing, and analyzing the day to day judicial data. However, the present study found that the courts across the world in general and Pakistani courts in particular did not pay attention towards using the computer soft wares to reasoning with evidence. The present study argued that the Pakistani courts should use the literature produced in artificial intelligence and law to organize, display and reasoning with judicial evidence. It is expected that the present study will contribute in realizing the potential benefits of modern technology to reasoning with evidence which will improve the courts’ performance.

Keywords: Reasoning with Evidence, Modern Technology, Bayesian Networks, Artificial Intelligence and Law.