Person
Tom Barraclough
Discussion paper
Governing digital legal systems: insights on artificial intelligence and rules as code
This paper suggests some starting points for thinking about the way that digital systems that implement law and regulation might be governed. In this instance, governance means a system of design, oversight, review, decision-making, and accountability that can provide people with assurance that the system is reliable and operating as it should.
Report
Making New Zealand accessible: a design for effective accessibility legislation
This report proposes a legal framework to make New Zealand accessible for and remove barriers that create disabling experiences. A quarter of New Zealanders experience disability and everyone will have an impairment at some point.
Report
Judgments as data
This report addresses access to case law in New Zealand, why it is important, and how it can be improved, particularly for use in digital services. In particular, it calls for written decisions of courts and tribunals in New Zealand to be prepared and published as digital data.
Report
Perception inception: preparing for deepfakes and the synthetic media of tomorrow
Synthetic media technologies have huge potential benefits, but they also have risks. Public awareness of this risk of deception has grown through discussion of one kind of emerging audiovisual technology known as “deepfakes”. This research report considers the wide-ranging social, legal and policy issues arising.
Report
Solving the problem: causation, transparency and access to justice in New Zealand’s personal injury system
This report advises how to remove the access to justice barriers faced by injured people in New Zealand.