Events

In future, laws should be designed with digital technology in mind from the outset, formulated in a practical manner and made easy to implement. The digital check and the strengthening of the National Regulatory Council underline the political ambition to shape legislation in line with digital infrastructures and enforcement realities – also and especially in the field of justice. In this session, Anna Sinell, Head of Administrative Digitisation Instruments at DigitalService, together with Brigitte Zypries, Congress President of the Digital Justice Summit, Matthias Schmid, Ministerial Director at the BMJV, and Malte Spitz, member of the National Regulatory Control Council, will discuss questions such as how the digital check can be systematically integrated into the legislative process and what role the judiciary can play in identifying and reducing legal complexity.

Digitalisation is not an end in itself – its impact must be measurable and controllable. But how can progress in the digitisation of the justice system be quantified in concrete terms? Which key performance indicators reflect not only activity, but real change? As part of a mini barcamp with Stephanie Kaiser, Chief Product Officer at DigitalService, and Alexander Schmid, Chief Digital Officer at the Federal Chamber of Notaries, practical key figures for progress, impact and usage will be developed together – e.g. on the duration of proceedings, the use of digital access or the quality of digital services from the perspective of the judiciary and citizens.

Innovation requires legal freedom, protected testing grounds, sustainable personnel structures and a cultural shift in dealing with change. The 2025 coalition agreement addresses this issue for the first time: experimental and opening clauses are intended to give the federal states more leeway in court organisation, digitisation and judicial jurisdiction. Pilot projects and real-world laboratories are intended as spaces for innovation, with the aim of transferring new models into regular operation. Rob Bors, Principal Product Manager in the ‘Communication Platform for Civil Proceedings’ project, will discuss the key factors for this in this session together with Carsten Karmanski, judge at the Federal Social Court, Stefan Rizor, spokesperson for the board of the Federal Association of Commercial Law Firms in Germany (BWD), and Annika Schröder, Head of Public Affairs at the Legal Tech Association Germany.

Whether court decisions, procedural data or administrative statistics – the justice system generates data. But how accessible, usable and open is this information really in the digital age? Jörg Ihlefeld, Principal Product Manager in the NeuRIS project, discusses this at the Digital Justice Summit with Dr. Thomas Dickert, President of the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg, Charlotte Guckenmus, lawyer and certified data protection officer at the German Association of Laawyers (DAV), Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann, Chair of Law and Security of Digitalisation at the Technical University of Munich, and Dr. Sebastian Neudeck, public prosecutor at the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor's Office – Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT).

In this best practice session, we present the specific approaches and methods used by the interdisciplinary project team from the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection and DigitalService to jointly test the digitisation of civil court proceedings on a nationwide basis in a knowledge-driven and user-centred manner. Together with project participants from the federal government, federal states and courts, we will show how we continuously and structurally involve all stakeholders in the ‘participatory product development’ cooperation model – in regular exchange formats, expert groups and user research.