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Abstract

The judiciary is a foundation of democracy, upholding the rule of law and protecting rights. Efficient court administration is vital for public trust, justice, and timely proceedings. Currently, courts face challenges such as inconsistencies, adjournments, and absence of transparency, undermining the justice system. Traditional manual processes and paper-based documentation cause significant backlogs, slow resolutions, and limited public access. As case volumes and complexities rise, modernizing court administration through digital transformation is progressively critical. Currently, many countries are integrating technologies in the courts for its administration and other activities. In recent years, courts and judges have been subjected to pressure to improve performance, uplifting judicial effectiveness to a top priority. Subsequently, several countries have integrated simplification and digitization strategies in judicial initiatives to enhance court efficiency. Switzerland’s Justitia 4.0 and Brazil’s PJE are notable initiatives that focused to strengthen court administration through digitalization. These aspects motivated this study to examine the detailed integration of industry 4.0 technologies such as the Internet of things, cloud computing, blockchain, big data analytics, robotics, drones, Metaverse, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for court administration with digitalized infrastructure. According to the study, integrating these technologies in less complex cases helps minimize expenditures and save time, making to resolve cases conveniently, efficiently, and superiorly. The study also identified the challenges and issues associated with industry 4.0 technologies such as evidence gathering, evidence preservation, robot judges for pre-judgment analysis, and judgment delivery, which future studies need to be explored.

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Title
Integrating industry 4.0 technologies for the administration of courts and justice dispensation—a systematic review
Author
Bhatt, Hitesh 1 ; Bahuguna, Rajesh 1 ; Swami, Siddharth 2 ; Singh, Rajesh 3 ; Gehlot, Anita 3 ; Akram, Shaik Vaseem 4 ; Gupta, Lovi Raj 5 ; Thakur, Amit Kumar 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Priyadarshi, Neeraj 6 ; Twala, Bhekisipho 7 

 Uttaranchal University, Law College Dehradun, Dehradun, India (GRID:grid.449906.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 4659 5193) 
 Doon University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Dehradun, India (GRID:grid.449113.a) (ISNI:0000 0004 1774 1235) 
 Uttaranchal University, Uttaranchal Institute of Technology, Dehradun, India (GRID:grid.449906.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 4659 5193) 
 SR University, Department of ECE, Warangal, India (GRID:grid.419655.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 0008 3668) 
 Phagwara, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India (GRID:grid.449005.c) (ISNI:0000 0004 1756 737X) 
 JIS College of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kolkata, India (GRID:grid.440742.1) (ISNI:0000 0004 1799 6713) 
 Tshwane University of Technology, Digital Transformation Portfolio, Pretoria, South Africa (GRID:grid.412810.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0109 1328) 
Pages
1076
Publication year
2024
Publication date
Dec 2024
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
e-ISSN
2662-9992
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3096463131
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.