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Information revealed in litigation and its effect on Decision Analysis
Decision analysis is a useful tool for a litigator to communicate process and risk, assess how much a case is ‘worth’, and provide a robust justification for settlement offers or acceptance. However the accuracy of the analysis is only as good as the information about the merits of a case available to the litigator at…
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Book Reviews: Tech-Sceptics on Legal-Tech
A review of sceptical books about tech, through the lens of legal-tech In “To Save Everything, Click Here”, Evgeny Morozov takes aim at “Internet Centrism” and “Solutionism”, two ideas which had infatuated our tech-loving culture in the last few decades. He is a brash, sceptical rabble-rouser, and makes for an entertaining and eye opening read.…
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Legal Form Design
Court forms commence processes that change lives. They end marriages, bankrupt people and throw them in jail. Poorly designed forms can lead to errors with similarly serious consequences. Making court and legal forms clearer, easier to use and more beautiful can reduce error rates and ultimately increase citizen’s access to a just legal system. But…
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An exercise in contract visualisation using AS4000
Visualisation makes contracts easier to understand, especially for non-lawyer, day-to-day users. Despite its benefits, the practice doesn’t appear to be widespread. In order to explore some of the reasons that lawyers might be reluctant to prepare visuals, I undertook a contract visualisation exercise on a commonly used construction contract, AS4000. In this post I present…
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Seeing the criminal justice system as infrastructure
The damning insights into the parlous state of the UK’s criminal justice system by the Secret Barrister are caused in part by a public and political class with little regard for the essential public good that the criminal justice system delivers. With that in mind, re-branding of the criminal justice system as ‘essential public infrastructure’…
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LegalTech in a Flat World
In Rules for a Flat World – Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy, Professor Gillian Hadfield argues that our legal infrastructure is failing to keep pace with the complexity of our modern, digitised world. In this post, I note how legaltech is beginning to address some of…
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Design parallels in Legal and Healthcare
In listening to a new podcast on the cost of healthcare in the US, I was struck by the many parallels between consuming healthcare, in particular in the US market, and consuming legal services. The parallels span much of the dysfunction of the US healthcare system and go to some of the classic gripes about…
Damian Curran 