Paper's abstract

Evelyne Serverin, From Legal Computing to Predictive Justice Services, The Long Road of Public Access to Dematerialized Court Decisions
In the French system, like in the other families of continental law, law is enacted by a power and its interpretation is placed under the control of supreme courts only. This vertical model was put to the test in the early sixties when legal informatics was introduced. The first decision databases are aimed at professionals, and are based on a documentary principle (I). The decree of 7 August 2002 stated the principle of a right of free public access to the essential data of the law, based on the selection of sources (II). In 2007, the principle of completeness has been at the origin of a decision-making base of appeal judgments, but without disclosure to the public (III). Finally, the French law of 7 October 2016 introduced a principle of free public access to the decisions of the lower courts, opening up a right of re-use that is seized by producers of predictive justice (IV) software, and involving a renewal of the theory of jurisprudence (conclusion).

Key Words : caselaw public data
t. 60, 2018: p. 23-47

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