| ▲ | mlmonkey 4 hours ago |
| I might be incredibly naive here, but I really think LLMs can make a difference in _some_ areas of law. Take, for example, India. The courts are backlogged like crazy. If you're not willing to bribe a judge or the opposite side's lawyer, you'r looking at multiple decades to settle simple cases. I wish I could waive a wand and have some LLM just go through all of the 58 million pending court cases, identify the clear cut ones and free up the judges' time so they can work on the more difficult ones. |
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| ▲ | intended 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Cheque bounce cases are counted as criminal cases in India and make up a sizeable chunk of the backlog. However it hasn’t been changed to a civil matter, even though it is on policy makers and the legal fraternity’s radar. Furthermore, courts are paid for primarily by states. The tech solution would run into the same resource constraint that is already present. All of this ignores a more fundamental aspect of the legal system, having a chance to have your case heard by a competent authority. Institutional sinews are built by doing the hard things and investing in it. |
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| ▲ | bpodgursky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Both parties in a lot of civil cases would accept next-day LLM adjudication rather than waiting five years for a judge to see it. |
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| ▲ | londons_explore 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You could build that as a business idea.... If both parties agree to use the LLM judge and be bound by what it decides, you don't need a real court. | | |
| ▲ | mlmonkey 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sad reality is that these delays are just an excuse to extract money from you. My cousin has an open-and-shut land case. His father was allotted some barren government land ~50 years ago and they have happily been farming it ever since. But suddenly, ~30 years ago the government decided to build a highway near it. Its value went up. And it dawned on some bureaucrat that nobody had made any money from the initial allotment; an injustice that must be fixed pronto! So they passed an order cancelling the initial allotment, and cousin's family went to court. Now, for almost 30 years, the case has been dragging on through the court. They've been told multiple times: take 25% of the current market value of the land and "sell" it to us. But they insist on doing things the proper way, and have been running to/from the courts. They're on their 5th team of lawyers, afaik. Each new lawyer agrees that it's a clear cut case, but month after month it drags on. | |
| ▲ | droidjj 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There’s a whole niche of legal scholarship around this idea (and some startups): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5331811 | |
| ▲ | judge2020 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you have a right to challenge the LLM decision in court if you don't like it, probably wouldn't get anywhere, especially if it takes multiple decades. Everyone losing would just challenge the LLM ruling and push it back to the courts. | | |
| ▲ | londons_explore 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Binding arbitration is already this and it works. You pretty much give up your right to settle the matter in court if you agree to binding arbitration |
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| ▲ | AndrewKemendo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s the Cinco e-trial from the Awesome Show: https://youtu.be/CMbKalNq2gs |
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