Application of digital technologies in litigation and dispute resolution

By now (we mean 2020) “digitalization” has completely replaced the more general “modernization” and “innovation” from both the political vocabulary and the sci-entific agenda. It is difficult to say how long this trend will continue and what kind of socio-technological phenomenon will replace it. It can be “cyberization”, within which a person will begin to bring himself into line with the canons of the sci-fi cyberpunk’s and combine biological with technological (and digital at the same time) in his body, or vice versa, some kind of reactionary “naturalization”. Anyway, now the widespread adoption of digital technology is an indisputable and obvious fact. And this process applies to all spheres of society’s life, without bypassing legal proceedings and out-of-court settlement of disputes (or in other words - alternative dispute resolution), which can be significantly improved using digital technologies. This article analyses the practice and legislative regulation of the use of digital technologies in various forms of legal proceedings and such types of out-of-court dispute resolution as arbitration and mediation. Comparative legal method allowed to compare Russian and foreign legislations as well as approaches to determining the permissible limits of the use of digital technologies, including their “intellectual” variety. Individual proposals have been formulated to improve Russian legislation.