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On December 16th, the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution regarding the Technical Notes generated by UNCITRAL’s ODR Working Group. The Resolution reads, in part: “The General Assembly: 1. Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law for preparing and adopting the Technical Notes on Online Dispute Resolution as annexed to the report of the...
The Geneva Internet Dispute Resolution Policies 1.0 (GIDRP 1.0) project has emerged as a result of an international conference that took place at the University of Geneva on 17 – 18 June 2015 at which leading experts presented and discussed selected facets of the numerous legal challenges surrounding Internet-related disputes.
Since its inception approximately 20 years ago, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) has been associated primarily with e-commerce. However, it is increasingly being used in innovative applications unique to the judiciary. ODR is a new concept for courts but has become central to the discussion of the future of courts. Some courts have successfully piloted ODR for landlord-tenant, small claims, and...
Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), the practice of resolving disputes via the Internet or digital applications, has been developing since the mid-1990s. As the field has grown and gained traction, it has increasingly received attention from professional associations and industry leaders in the world of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) More recently, it has begun to receive recognition from sources outside of this field – in both the public and private sectors. As the field develops and…
The proposal to create online courts has been the subject matter of discussions for many years. Several reports by prominent judges have been released all pointing to a new age of administering justice online. One of these courts, the online civil tribunal (CRT), has begun its operations in British Columbia (BC), Canada on 13 July 2016. The CRT's design has some strong similarities with the proposed online courts, and could…