Supreme Court of Georgia

Riga Conference on Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary

Published: 10/03/2018

The Working Group on Quality of Justice (CEPEJ-GT-QUAL) of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) held its 24^th meeting at the Council of Europe in Riga, Latvia on 25 -26 September  2018. The Georgian representative of the CEPEJ working group Mrs.Nino Bakakuri was invited to participate in the event.

The Judicial Quality Work Group (CEPEJ GT-QUAL) is a group of international experts, instructed to develop means of analysis and evaluation of the work done inside the courts with a view to improve the quality of the public services delivered by the justice system in the member states.  In order to fulfill its tasks, the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL group, while observing the principle of independence of judges, must collect necessary information on evaluation systems of the quality of judicial work existing in the member states; improve tools, indicators and means for measuring the quality of judicial work; draft concrete solutions for the policy makers and for the courts, allowing to remedy dysfunctions in the judicial activity and balance the obligations of the work of judges and its workload with the obligation to provide a justice of quality for the users. The participants also discussed such significant issues as challenges of the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in judicial systems, going further with cyber justice guidelines, modern methods of updating/renewal of existing electronic allocation of cases, developing informational technologies strategies for the judiciary and improving existing guidelines prepared by CEPEJ-GT-QUAL.

The CEPEJ working group was the first to develop   the European Ethical Charter on the use of artificial intelligence in judicial systems that will be presented to the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice for approval.

The attendants represented judiciary of different countries. Georgia was presented by Ana Shalmberidze, head of Communication and Coordination Unit of the Supreme Court of Georgia and Tornike Getsadze, representative from High Council of Justice of Georgia.