Deputy minister unveils high accuracy in predicting judgments

Okaz/Saudi Gazette

RIYADH — Deputy Minister of Justice for Planning and Development Eng. Yasser Al-Sudais said that the Ministry of Justice has reached high accuracy in predicting judgments in some types of cases and thus enabling the judge to use it prudently.

“This also helps him shorten time and effort and improve judicial work and a draft judgment may be issued to him so that he can review and adopt it if he wishes or make changes in the ruling,” he said while speaking to Okaz/Saudi Gazette on the sidelines of the International Conference on Justice in Riyadh.

Al-Sudais said that the ministry presented a paper on artificial intelligence at the judicial conference. “The International Conference on Justice, which was organized with the slogan of ‘Facilitating access to justice through digital innovation’ discussed opportunities to exploit the accelerated digital transformation in the justice sector and the challenges facing the sector, and how far digital transformation can help in this respect,” he said.

The minister noted that a large number of experts specialized in several fields related to the judiciary from all countries of the world took part in the discussions on topics such as challenges resulting from the digital transformation, and its effects that may need to be studied carefully and to find certain criteria to control and exploit the digital transformation.