Winners of the New South Wales Bar Association/SULS Legal Innovation and Technology Blog Competition

11/11/2020

In August this year, the New South Wales Bar Association partnered with the Sydney University Law Society (SULS) to jointly host the inaugural Legal Innovation and Technology Blog Competition. The Competition provided a platform for students to work in teams of three to submit an abstract for their proposed blog post on the challenges faced by the legal industry and the new solutions created by technology. Of the abstracts received, ten teams were selected to write their blog post, with topics ranging from the Implications of AI adjudication to the transition to online courts.

On 27 October, a virtual awards ceremony was held to announce the winners of the competition, judged by members of the Innovation and Technology Committee, Michael Green SC, Angela Bowne SC, Greg Waugh SC, and Beth Oliak. The Chair of the Innovation and Technology Committee, Michael Green SC, gave a keynote address to the students. The Association would like to congratulate the winners of the Blog Competition, Charis Chiu, Yijun Cui and Rachel Wang, for their blog entry, ‘Trial and Error: The Case on Virtual Courts’. The Association would also like to highly commend two other teams for their entries:

• Isabelle Niletzer, Kathy Zhang, Julia Lim, ‘A New (Virtual) Reality for the Courtroom’

• Kelly Choo, Deaundre Espejo, Duranka Jayasinghe, ‘Predictive Judicial Analytics: Implications for Rule of Law and the Legal Profession'.

The Association would like to thank the Innovation and Technology Committee, the members of the judging subcommittee, Sydney University Law Society and Dr Carolyn McKay for all their work to facilitate the competition.