Keynote address to 2013 New Zealand Law Society Technology and Law Seminar June 2013

1. His Hon Judge David Harvey
Technology and Law
June 2013

3. Information

4. Information Flow

5. Court proceedings are all about
information

6. Printing Press

7. The printing
press is an
example of the
impact of an
information
technology upon
the law

8. The Properties of Digital
Technologies
• Persistence
• Continuing disruptive
change
• Dynamic information
• Delinearisation of
information
• Dissociative enablement
• Permissionless innovation
• Availability
• Participation
• Searchability
• Retrievability

9. The medium is
the message

10. Non-
presence of
witnesses

12. Nicholas Carr
The Shallows:How the
Internet is Changing
the Way we Think,
Read and Remember

13. Susan Greenfield

14. Aleks Krotoski

15. Fear of Technology

16. The impact of the
Internet lies in
how it redefines
information
- Access
- Process
- Use
- Responses
- Expectations

17. Electronic land transfer and company
registrations

18. Content layer changes

19. Depersonalisation of legal practice

20. E-mail = behavioural changes

21. Richard Susskind

22. Technology is reducing the need for
expensive artisan trained lawyers

23. Legal work migrates from bespoke work

24. To standardised work

25. To systemised work

26. To packaged work

27. To commoditised work

28. An example of the “more for less” challenge

29. Liberalisation of legal practice

30. Legal profession has not been swift to
embrace new systems

31. Can information technology be ignored by
a profession whose business is
information?

32. Because of continuing
disruptive change
there is no finishing
line for IT or the
Internet

35. His Hon Judge David Harvey
Technology and Law
June 2013