Innovation

As driverless cars become commonplace, can they help regulators and policy-makers achieve transport goals of reducing car ownership and congestion, and increasing road safety and mobility? What legal challenges do they present?

Andrew Fletcher, Director of Thomson Reuters Labs, London, reflects on the Legal Geek conference, exploring the close link between innovation and culture. How can the legal sector bring all the ingredients together to deliver on the promise of legal tech?

Far too many people remain deprived of their full legal rights or otherwise face too much stress when in contact with the legal system and applying the law generally. How can new technologies improve access to justice? Can new apps and platforms bring the underrepresented and the unrepresented into the legal system?

The technology-driven changes in the legal industry have spawned a fascinating network of organisations devoted to legal innovation in all its various forms. If legal practitioners are looking for greater understanding of what’s going on at the cutting edge of legal technology, or better yet, want to participate by creating or adopting new technologies for the law, there is no shortage of places to go to feed that interest.

Thomson Reuters has produced an in-depth report, analysing online dispute resolution technology and the significant impact it is already having on dispute resolution in the UK.