Artificial-intelligence judges, cybercourts and verdicts delivered on chat apps - welcome to China's brave new world of justice.
China is encouraging digitization to streamline case-handling within its sprawling court system using cyberspace and technologies like blockchain and cloud computing, the country's Supreme People's Court said in a new policy paper.
The efforts include a "mobile court" offered on popular social media platform WeChat that has already handled more than 3 million legal cases or other judicial procedures since its launch in March, according to the Supreme People's Court.
The paper was released this past week as judicial authorities gave journalists a glimpse inside a "cybercourt" - the country's first - established in 2017 in the eastern city of Hangzhou to deal with legal disputes that have a digital aspect.
In a demonstration, authorities showed how the Hangzhou Internet Court operates, featuring an online interface in which litigants appear by video chat while an AI judge - complete with an on-screen avatar - prompts them to present their cases.
"Does the defendant have any objection to the nature of the judicial blockchain evidence submitted by the plaintiff?" the black-robed virtual judge, sitting under China's national emblem, asked in a pre-trial meeting.
"No objection," a human plaintiff answered.
Cases that are handled at the Hangzhou court include online trade disputes, copyright cases and e-commerce product liability claims.
Litigants can register their civil complaints online and later log on for their court hearing.
Putting simple functions like that in the hands of the virtual judge helps ease the burden on human justices, who monitor the proceedings and make the major rulings in each case, officials said.
The digitization push is partly to help courts keep up with a growing caseload created by mobile payments and e-commerce in China, which has the world's largest number of mobile internet users at around 850 million.
Source: AFP
Editor: Crystal H
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