process; the very high volume of uncontested claims in the High Court,
District Court and Small Claims Tribunal suggests that this area might
usefully be explored.
5.
The volume of business in the Family Court suggests the
possibility that a computerised index of petitions and record of the progress of cases might be feasible. The high volume of cases in the Magistracy may be a candidate and could be linked with a system to
check where one person faces charges in different Courts and
Magistracies.
6.
Jury
summoning is already a subject of planning here.
Probate work might be another.
7.
The listing process and the collection of listing information
are often regarded as good subjects but the results are not always
successful. This may be due to unsuitable equipment or adding too much
to the operational requirement. The larger the number of courts served
by one listing office the wider the scope for computerisation.
8.
Computerised data bases for law reports and mechanised
systems of looking up the law are in use in some countries but not
always very successfully. Nevertheless, this might be a useful support
service for judges and is worth looking into.
9.
The Judiciary will increasingly be trying to collect, store,
analyse and use statistical information about the state of business in
the courts and tribunals. It will wish to monitor throughput and
predict the trends in the future state of business. All this also
lends itself to computerisation.
10.
Those are illustrations of systems that might be considered.
Some will be more suitable than
Some in Hong Kong may not be suitable.
others and there may be suitable systems in the Judiciary which I have
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