抄録
In 2020, it was decided by the Japanese government to make court decisions on civil cases available to the general public. When this comes true, over 200,000 court decisions every year will become “open data”. This should be a significant change from the current situation, under which as many as 300,000cases in total, including both civil and criminal cases, are available in commercial databases. It will subject judicial decisions to closer monitoring by the public than now, just as the Supreme Court decision of 1989 that admitted taking notes in the courtroom strengthened the publicʼs monitoring of court decisions. Such monitoring by the public, in turn, shall ultimately strengthen the publicʼs trust in the judiciary. The development of judgment prediction program or other legal tech system, which is one of the motivations to make the civil case decisions open data, will benefit from the larger number of court decisions becoming available. Still, what implications it may have on the existing judicial system, including the style of legal reasoning, needs to be carefully examined.
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