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Automating the criminal courts

Automating the criminal courts

But unlicensed fishers won’t be sentenced by algorithms

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jul 27, 2021
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As the Evening Standard reports that more than 5,000 defendants were wrongly given criminal convictions because of an IT flaw which went unnoticed for six months, I bring you news of a plan to convict defendants in England and Wales without any human involvement at all.

Last week, I examined part 1 of the government’s Judicial Review and Courts Bill, whi…

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