Dubai's DIFC Courts have been identified by the world's largest organisation of court management professionals for their job to improve accessibility to justice with the application of modern technology.

The DIFC Courts new Smart Small Claims Tribunal (SCT), which makes it possible for events to accessibility justice from throughout the world, was picked as one of the year's Leading 10 Court Innovation Solutions at the yearly National Association for Court Management (NACM) awards in Washington, DC.

Gathering the award in Washington, DC, Mark Beer, OBE, co - President and Registrar General of the DIFC Courts, said: "From the beginning, the DIFC Judiciaries have acknowledged that modern technology has the power to change the court experience by making the process as quickly, efficient and user-friendly as feasible. For many years we have actually originated several technological firsts and we are happy to proceed setting new standards for digital excellence. Our Smart SCT fixes a real issue for individuals and small companies both in the UAE and beyond, and assists to improve access to justice by making it possible for individuals to use the court wherever there is a broadband link."

Kevin Bowling, NACM Past President and Co-Chair of the Joint Modern technology Board, claimed: "For Dubai International Financial Centre's English language usual law Courts, innovation is an effective motorist for their passion of leading the industrial court sector. Identifying that events to industrial disputes are usually on the step - especially SMEs - and require fast accessibility to a court for rapid settlement any place they could be, DIFC Courts smart Little Insurance claims Tribunal harnesses innovation to attach, moderate, and where needed, provide judgment. This is evidence positive of the idea that courts of the future ought to be totally linked and entirely accessible."

The DIFC Courts established the region's very first tiny insurance claims tribunal in 2007 to manage lower worth cases in a private, informal setting. Since claims are smaller sized and commonly much less complicated, SCT hearings happen without lawyers, with the emphasis on locating a friendly remedy that helps both events. In 2016, three quarters of all SCT instances were resolved within four weeks.

Building on this success, the DIFC Courts identified a need to offer a significantly mobile populace and a busy business community that travels extensively. Introduced in October 2016, the Smart SCT is furnished with video conferencing and instance monitoring innovation that allows individuals or tiny- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to take part in hearings from throughout the world. Previously, parties in dispute and a judge should be present throughout hearings. With the new modern technology, however, all events concerned, such as company owner on the move, occupants that have actually leavinged from the UAE, and staff members both in and out of Dubai with contract issues, have the ability to fix their disagreements by from another location attending their consultations and hearings.

Established in 1985 and headquartered in Williamsburg, Virginia, the NACM unites a subscription of 1,700 court monitoring professionals from the United States, Canada, Australia, and various other countries, to enhance the administration of justice. The yearly Leading 10 Court Modern technology Solutions Awards honour were established to acknowledge courts that have best made use of modern technology to improve court services and access to the public.