Sentences with phrase «court use of digital technologies»

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Using high - tech digital recording systems shows judges and administrators are early adopters of technology when it suits the court's needs.

The court reached its decision after considering newly - discovered evidence of police misconduct obtained through the use of digital forensic technology not available at the time of trial and holding several days of evidentiary hearings.

As a result, courts across Canada have been forced to grapple with what role, if any, digital media technology is to play within the modern casting of the open court principle, and who, if anyone, is given recourse to its use in the courtroom.

Using digital technology to increase the efficiency of courts to enable lawyers waiting to participate in trials to work remotely with free WiFi and access to sockets.

The only courtroom technology expenditure that might be a permissible use of Pacer fees is digital audio equipment that allows recordings of court proceedings to be made available on Pacer, Huvelle said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck — author of the first - ever court decision approving the use of technology assisted review in e-discovery — was recently a guest on the Legal Talk Network podcast Digital Detectives.

Topics include: the digital divide and the risk of two tiers of justice; the role of the courts and law schools in providing legal services; the impact of technology on access to the legal system; basic practices for using technology to increase access; and the implications of technology - based dispute resolution mechanisms outside of the courts; a comparative analysis of the US approach to access to the legal system and other countries.

The Court held that while in theory there may be a «technological gap» between the use of a computer and the information it generates, «that gap is filled by our common experience with modern technology, even though we may not understand how photocopiers, digital telephone systems or personal computers treat and convert digital data into something intelligible.»

Courts sometimes comment on territorial concerns, where, for example, a computer is used or found in a bedroom or a workplace, but given the mobility of technology and the accessibility of digital data from multiple locations, the spatial boundaries to privacy are increasingly meaningless.

By the late 1990s some federally - appointed judges were awakening to the possibility that their increasing use of technology on and off the bench was subject to certain risks, not only due to the inherent limitations of digital technology, but to the structural design of court technology infrastructure.