Agenda

• Florence Ranson, Moderator
• Richard Susskind, President of the Society for Computers and Law, former IT adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

• Florence Ranson, Moderator
• Yoana Nikolova, European Commission, Directorate General for Justice & Consumers

• Florence Ranson, Moderator
• Haffide Boulakras, Directeur adjoint de l’École nationale de la magistrature
• Gianluca Grasso, Membre du Conseil de direction de la Scuola superiore della magistratura, Italy

L’adoption de moyens technologiques innovants au sein d’une organisation induit une transformation qui peut être majeure. Ces changements principalement dans les modalités d’information et de communication propres à la structure doivent être anticipés et pris en compte afin d’accompagner cette transformation et en tirer bénéfice. Initiés depuis des dizaines d’années sur le territoire de nombreux pays européens, la numérisation et le développement de systèmes automatisés, ainsi que l’impact des algorithmes et de l’open data, font évoluer sensiblement le quotidien des magistrats et greffiers mais également la relation à l’usager. Cet impact sur l’activité judiciaire mais également sur le service public de la Justice continueront d'avoir un impact à un rythme de plus en plus rapide. Il s'agit d'un défi important pour améliorer l'efficacité de la justice et la protection des droits de l'homme Cette présentation vise à témoigner des expériences de la France et de l'Italie dans le domaine et la manière dont la formation des juges et des procureurs est conduite.

• Lena Geckle, Moderator
• Viktor Vadasz, Deputy Director, Academy of European Law ERA

The increasing presence of technology in daily life has multifaceted consequences for the legal professions, and digitalisation was identified as a major challenge legal practitioners will face in the future by the European Commission too. The digital transformation of the legal professions required ERA to adopt a hybrid approach, combining face-to-face training with a strong online programme. Beside the methodological answer, we also needed to focus more on the achievements of the modern digital area in our programmes. The pandemic accelerated the digital revolution in the professional world, and ERA needed to respond to the new training needs. The presentation will give you examples of these training topics.

• Wojciech Postulski, Moderator
• Rhianon Williams, DIGICOR Project Manager, Bremen Justice Ministry, Germany
• Pedro Das Neves, Executive director of IPS Innovative Prison Systems and editor of JUSTICE TRENDS Magazine

The COVID-19 pandemic was a critical turning point for prison and probation administrations’ relationship with technology. Post crisis, space must be made to sift and transfer knowledge and practice initiatives between member state administrations and prisons. Staff training needs to keep pace with new technological developments, and this workshop will showcase the DIGICOR initiative. Its objective is to provide an open-access training course developed by practitioners for front line prison and probation staff, and trainers.

This workshop will present:

• DIGICOR’s real-world ‘digital scenarios’ showcasing tech use in prison and probation.
• The modular, open-access DIGICOR training course for front line staff and their trainers.
• All available resources on https://digicor-corrections.eu/

• Sara Hjeltnes, Moderator
• José Júlio Fernandes, Senior trainer, Direção-Geral da Administração da Justiça, Portugal

Portugal's experience in the digitalisation of justice is now more than two decades old, as a result of the timely identification of the advantage of building a digital society to reinvent the functioning and organisation of justice, to facilitate its operation, the processing of and access to cases, not only for legal professionals, authorities and official bodies, but also, fundamentally, for citizens. However and even though the level of success achieved in the implementation of electronic proceedings is very relevant, there are still some issues that hinder its full implementation. Role of training in this process will be discussed.

• Alessandro D’Ancona, Head of General Affairs Office, Ministero della Giustizia, Italy

• Florence Ranson, Moderator

• Florence Ranson, Moderator
• Lizbeth Goodman, Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and Full Professor of Inclusive Design for Education at University College Dublin/Director, SMARTlab

• Florence Ranson, Moderator
• Ingrid Derveaux, Secretary General, European Judicial Training Network EJTN

The European Judicial Training Network coordinates almost 1000 events every year, training around 7000 judges, prosecutors and court staff across Europe. While most of the EJTN activities were organised face to face in the past, the covid 19 crisis imposed a radical change to keep the network alive, switching all the activities online and accelerating its digital transition. Today, the EJTN members have developed a useful experience and knowledge in that field. They are able to share best practices. The main challenge for the EJTN will be thus to make this sharing happening, to support the members in digitalisation and to train with and on digitalisation properly. The virtual classrooms experience will illustrate that objective.

• Silviya Dimitrova, Deputy Director, National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Bulgaria

The European Judicial Training Network coordinates almost 1000 events every year, training around 7000 judges, prosecutors and court staff across Europe. While most of the EJTN activities were organised face to face in the past, the covid 19 crisis imposed a radical change to keep the network alive, switching all the activities online and accelerating its digital transition. Today, the EJTN members have developed a useful experience and knowledge in that field. They are able to share best practices. The main challenge for the EJTN will be thus to make this sharing happening, to support the members in digitalisation and to train with and on digitalisation properly. The virtual classrooms experience will illustrate that objective.

With the support of Programme “Justice” under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014 – 2021 over the period of two years (2020 - 2022) the National Institute of Justice set up and adequately equipped shared learning spaces in 13 Bulgarian courts and prosecutor’s offices for the purposes of providing face-to-face, e-learning and blended training.

The shared learning spaces for the development of knowledge, skills and competencies are perceived as a key instrument for the implementation of the NIJ training vision, which integrates learning into work and facilitates and enhances the trainees’ commitment in the learning process.

The shared learning spaces built up at the decentralized level will further evolve as the NIJ training hubs in courts and prosecutor’s offices in which skills and competences will be strengthened through practical workshops, group discussions and other professional practice exchange sessions. Each shared learning space is provided with a remote access 24/7 to the NIJ E-learning platform which enables justice practitioners to be trained digitally and to work with wide range of online tools and self-learning resources.

• Raf Van Ransbeeck, Director, L’Institut de formation judiciaire (IFJ-IGO), Belgium

The positive effects of digitalised training courses: the Belgian experience. The covid pandemic has accelerated digitalisation worldwide, so too within the judiciary. Where webinars, e-learnings and other forms of e-courses only represented a fraction of the training offer a few years ago, the trend has now largely reversed. This workshop will be focusing on the approach of the Belgian Judicial Training Institute in this matter and how it has evolved and is experienced to this day

• Dariusz Szawurski-Radetz, judicial assistant National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution, Poland

Utilizing AI and VR in judicial training at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution: training on the usage of algorithms (AI) for calculation formulas in civil cases regarding the division of joint property or the division of inheritance ; workshops for judges, prosecutors and court staff preparing them for the use of VR goggles.

• Tara O’Neil, Chief Innovation Officer at SMARTlab Niagara

Augmented reality (AR) can be a powerful tool for learning. Researchers have found that AR can shift mental models and remove bias to decrease resistance and create empathy. In education and learning it has been proven that augmented experiences result in greater attention by learners.

AR experiences foster more collaboration amongst users and enhance conceptual learning. Results have shown that some users provide up to 40% more correct answers after an immersive AR learning experience compared to those used solely paper-based learning tools.

Building case study libraries for learning using AR Training Cards is just one way that dense information and facts can be displayed and for longer term memory retention as well as ease of retrieval and sharing of information. Looking at basic case study on the women's suffragette movement participants will be able to access a set of training cards on their phones to experiences the tip of the iceberg when it comes to immersive AR learning.

• Wojciech Postulski, Moderator
• TP Kennedy, Director of Education, Law Society of Ireland
• Rory O’Boyle, Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland
• Caroline Kennedy, IT Manager, Law Society of Ireland

The objective of this workshop is to demonstrate how technology can be used to significantly enhance the learning experience for lawyers, both at the initial qualification stage and indeed for continued professional development (CPD) post qualification. We showcase how we have used the iPad as a bespoke teaching & learning tool for almost ten years, thus ensuring that what is taught to our students at pre-qualification level also reflects the changes occurring in the day-to-day practice of law and the administration of justice. We then describe our adaptation of technological resources during the pandemic to ensure the successful online delivery of our entire solicitor training programme, including the provision of online skills training and online examinations. Finally we review how the lessons learnt during the pandemic with regard to the use of technology can be leveraged post-pandemic to provide new more flexible routes to qualification and more accessible CPD offerings through ‘blended’ learning opportunities.

• Lena Geckle, Moderator

• Jana Špero, Secretary General of the Confederation for European Probation, CEP, former deputy Minister Prisons and Probation, Croatia
• Dorin Muresan, Chair of the ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association training and development network, former deputy director general and former prison governor, Romania

• Florence Ranson, Moderator
• Ana Gallego, Director-General, Directorate General for Justice & Consumers