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KDU Law Journal Volume 04 Issue II
September, 2024
important terms and clauses in contracts, review and analyze large
amounts of information more quickly and efficiently, translate legal
documents into other languages, and provide prompt and accurate
responses to legal questions .
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AI can help increase access to justice by providing legal information
and assist judges and lawyers in making more informed and legally
accurate decisions by providing access to vast amounts of legal
data and analytics leading to more consistent and fair outcomes. It
has been noted that AI provides a number of opportunities which
can be exploited in favour of enhancing the efficacy of judicial
processes. These opportunities are being taken advantage of in
several jurisdictions. For instance, in Mexico, judges and clerks
are presently being advised by the Mexican Expertius system
as to whether a plaintiff is eligible for the grant of a pension or
not. However, it also discovered that there are challenges, such as
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the lack of complete legal data, which could restrict the usefulness
of AI. Also the legal sector is notoriously slow to accept new
technologies.

The question of bias has been approached in an interesting manner
in the context of Digital Intelligence -based systems. For instance,
In State vs Loomis United States courts once had an AI tool was
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used which connected in helping to make bail and sentencing
decisions. This was based on an Algorithm called “COMPAS”.
This was used in Nationwide to decide whether the defendants
awaiting the trial were too dangerous to be released on bail. But
this tool was not a success. The reason is according to this
system only the richest people for the same offence getting out

15 Debayan Roy, ‘Artificial Intelligence not a substitute for trained judicial mind, can
deal with traffic violations,cheque bounce cases: Justice Hima Kohl’ (Bar and Bench, 12
February 2023)<https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/artificial-intelligence-not-a-
substitute-for-trained-judicial-mind-justice-hima-kohli> accessed 18 October 2023
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16 Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane, Arificial Intelligence in the Legal System (published by
Judges Journal Vol V ) P.3
17 State v. Loomis [2016 ] WI 68 , 371 Wis.2d 235, 881 N.W.2d 749
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