NLJ this week: Digital justice & the radical Vos project

The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos is proposing a digitalisation project that ‘will change the whole nature of civil litigation’, barrister Stephen Shaw writes in this week’s NLJ

Vos wants the ‘analogue’ approach to litigation to be abandoned, in favour of ‘digitalised’ justice. But what does that mean, exactly? Shaw explains, painting a fascinating picture of an entirely, radically different system of dispute resolution. It’s a ‘supremely ambitious’ project, with data increasingly stored on the blockchain and therefore less challengeable coupled with a digitalised pre-action portal system, resulting in faster resolution.