Strategy for Digital Transformation of Judicial Activity: Main Approaches Taking into Account National and Foreign Experience

The imperative of Russia’s development based on taking into account national interests, the needs of citizens and their families predetermines the innovative format of the evolution of national courts as an element of the digital economy, large-scale tasks for their digital transformation, including the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies. Russian courts are proactively testing the capabilities of modern technologies in legal proceedings, court proceedings and court management, forming a certain maturity in the process of developing and using these technologies. At the same time, the decentralized nature of the introduction of innovations actualizes the need for unified management of digitalization processes and their standardization within the judicial system.

Purpose of the work: based on national and foreign experience, theoretically substantiate the main elements of the strategy for the digital transformation of judicial activity, including the distinctive features of its digital model, as well as the goals, directions, principles, and stages of transformation.

The methodological base consists of traditional techniques and methods of scientific knowledge (dialectical, system analysis, comparative legal, modeling method, etc.).

In the context of socially oriented justice, the work argues for the distinctive features of the digital model of judicial activity (or the court of the future), which should be supported using information technologies, including artificial intelligence technologies. It is argued that digital technologies themselves are neither the goal of transformation nor a value requiring funding. The digital model of judicial activity cannot be identified with legal proceedings and court proceedings, where information technologies, including artificial intelligence technologies, are intuitively integrated. The digital model of judicial activity, reflecting a court focused on the needs of citizens, is characterized by new responsibilities of the courts: in the field of social management, preventive, in the field of strategic planning and data analytics, development of ethical principles for the use of artificial intelligence in judicial activity, etc.

The digital transformation of judicial activity is a multi-faceted, complex, modular, stage-by-stage, developing process, where the participation of judges themselves in the development and testing of modern information technologies is fundamentally important.