INTRODUCTION: Continuity and Technological Change in Justice Delivery

The speed at which technology has been changing the way we do things in many fields of human activity has been nothing short of astonishing. This great potential for change observed in technology once appeared to hold the promise of rejuvenating justice. To many of us, the adoption of new technology seemed the obvious course that would quickly generate new models and lead us to achieve cost-and time-effective justice delivery, the course, in other words, that would lead us to the Holy Grail of access to justice. This techno-utopian view was understandable at the time when computers first made their