First meeting of Working Group 1.2.1 on Justice and New Technologies, Athens, 10-12 July 2012

This meeting takes place under the second Working Group (WG 1.2) of the first main component of the project: Access to Justice and Legal Aid, and is focused on Justice and the New Technologies. The objective of this activity will be to prepare a handbook describing approaches and best practices with regards to the use of technologies for the case management, circulation of materials, data collection in the legal field and communication of case law to the public. This is the first of 3 meetings devoted to this issue. 

During this first meeting we are going to explain the general and specific content, timing and methodology of the activity, having the opportunity to discus the expected results related to this topic as well as the planning of the work to be developed.

In addition, we will have the opportunity of sharing the international experts’ opinion and the participants’ first approach on the main topics to be discussed from their own perspective and respective competences. Through an in-depth and detailed discussion, we will have a profound discussion on the main topics that will be tackled during this first meeting: case management, circulation of materials and the use of new technologies. In this respect we will have the opportunity to discuss on the techniques available to measure the performance of the justice administration and the collection of data in the field of justice, with special reference to the work developed by the CEPEJ. The discussion will also address the topic “e-Justice and e-Law: present and future.”