Podcast Law in Action - Episode 3.8:Access to Justice in a digital era: a conversation with Lisa Pelssers

Law in Action is a podcast in which academics talk about their research and how law works in practice. The guests are academics who contributed to the special issue “Access to Justice in a digital era” of the Journal of Empirical Research on Law in Action (Recht der Werkelijkheid).In Belgium, the Central Solvency Register (RegSol) was launched within the commercial courts in 2017. Lisa Pelssers, together with Christophe Dubois researched how RegSol was designed and developed within the commercial courts and the impact it had on the working context of its stakeholders. They conclude that without mobilizing and involving court practitioners in the design, development and implementation of the tool, its capacity to increase access to and transparency of justice will remain problematic and controversial