3.5. The Judiciary System
Ideas
- Justice is responsible for upholding the Constitution.
- It is accessible to all and independent of other powers.
- AI facilitates access to justice and speeds up procedures.
- Citizen juries can be convened to judge specific cases.
Constitutional control
Justice provides the ultimate instance of control over respect for the Constitution through the Court of the Just.
- It checks the constitutionality of proposed laws submitted for voting.
- It can be consulted by institutions to resolve doubts about the interpretation of the Constitution.
- It controls the constitutionality of changes made to applications that allow the exercise of the Software Democracy.
The daily exercise of justice
Independence from political and economic power
Justice has its own funding, independent of the state and the economic environment. Its representatives are professionals and are not chosen by the State.
As a counter-power, they can mobilize the judicial police, independent of the state police force and with extensive investigative powers.
Accessibility of justice
Justice can be accessed by any citizen, association, or company for their own interests or those of society.
Justice can be accessed through online applications, which facilitate and speed up the procedure.
Justice and new technologies
Justice is one of the areas where AI will perform real miracles.
- The plaintiff's AI will draft their complaint.
- The defendant's AI will draft their defense.
- The AI of justice will know all the laws and case law. It will be capable of requesting additional information, drafting a reasoned verdict proposal, developing or synthesizing the argumentation...
Initially, this will obviously be done under the supervision of the various stakeholders, but there is no reason why the system will not increase its autonomy over time. Combined with good software, it could almost automate the first level of case handling and reserve human interpretation for appeals.
Not only will this drastically speed up judicial procedures, but it will greatly reduce their number; indeed, it will be very simple to have a good estimate of the chances of success of a procedure right from the start!
Citizen participation
For cases that have gone beyond AI processing, or for important issues, justice has the option of calling on citizen juries.
Although this is slow and expensive, and not necessarily suitable for all procedures, it allows complex decisions to be entrusted to a citizen jury that is more representative of society than professional judges.