12 Jun 2025

How technology can help improve access to justice

From Nine To Noon, 11:32 am on 12 June 2025
The front page of the document 'Application for access to court documents'.

Could we use technology to improve access to justice? Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly

Tech commentator Alex Sims discusses access to justice, and how technology might improve it.

She'll look at how the legal process can be lengthy and costly, and provide global examples of tools that have been created to help guide people through processes - like how to challenge parking tickets, or file the relevant files with the right court.

Alex Sims is a Professor in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland Business School and an expert on blockchain technology, copyright law and consumer law.