Some articulations of the ‘multi-door' justice concept have assumed that the court is at the epicentre of the justice system and is critical in the context of dispute resolution referral. In recent decades, there has been a shift in how courts and conceptualized within the justice system and...

As with other jurisdictions, China has introduced a range of newer technologies into its justice sector to promote greater access to justice, improve judicial transparency and to promote just outcomes for disputing parties with legal issues. Chinese courts’ practice of embracing technology is...

A number of increasingly sophisticated technologies are now being used to support complex decision-making in a range of contexts. This paper reports on a project undertaken to provide decision support in discretionary legal domains by referring to a recently created model that involves the...

Whilst some theorists consider that it is only within courts that justice can be found and find the extension of the concept of justice beyond court-based adjudication to be troubling, the reality is that justice has always existed outside judicial determination and outside courts. This is...