The Development of Online Courts in The Digital Age and The Prospect of Future Justice: Based on The Innovation of Judicial Methods in China and The United Kingdom

Abstract

New technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence have brought challenges to people's way of life, but also have an impact on the traditional case handling mode of courts. As an innovative judicial trial model, online court is put forward under this background.This article takes online courts in China and the United Kingdom as the research object, and analyzes the application of emerging technologies to trials and the global challenges of judicial intelligence and digitization.It will use the method of comparison and examples, firstly discuss and compare the structure and function of traditional courts and online courts, and reveal the hidden dangers of online courts. Then it gives examples of judicial innovation and online court development in China and the United Kingdom respectively in the digital age, and summarizes valuable common experience and feasible innovation models. The reasonable development of online courts will undoubtedly bring convenience and flexibility to litigation, which is an innovation of judicial model under digital governance, but at the same time, problems such as the actual implementation of the ideal, maintaining trial efficiency and quality, and privacy information protection also need to be solved.In the age of digitization, opportunities and conflicts coexist, and where technology will take the law depends on people's choice of its value.