Conference programme

A truly globe-spanning panel, with practitioners and academics, will be discussing how the framework, principles and rules for digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) is being implemented into their local legal systems and how approaches mirror and diverge across their jurisdictions. As the world adapts to this fast-paced change – who is keeping up and who is already beginning to lag behind?

In this session, industry leaders and legal tech experts explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming litigation practice across three distinct levels: supportive, replacement and disruptive technology. At the support level, AI assists lawyers in performing time-intensive tasks such as document review, legal research and discovery, enabling faster and more accurate outputs without altering core legal processes. Moving to replacement technology, AI tools begin to substitute traditional roles, automating contract review, case analysis and even initial brief drafting. Finally, the panel will delve into disruptive AI, which fundamentally changes the litigation landscape. With advances in predictive analytics and complex AI systems capable of analysing case outcomes, AI could soon challenge existing workflows, potentially making some traditional litigation roles obsolete. By combining insights from academia, hands-on practice and technology development, this panel offers a nuanced view of how each level of AI impacts the legal landscape, equipping attendees with diverse perspectives on adopting and adapting AI in their practices.

In this interactive panel discussion, lawyers on the leading edge of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution will discuss how AI is shaping the practice of law and dispute resolution, with a particular focus on how AI may support access to justice across the legal profession. Issues to be considered with include how AI is shaping the resolution of consumer disputes; how courts and other dispute resolution systems are using AI to improve access to justice; how privacy and legal privilege concerns arising with the use of AI in dispute resolution are being addressed; and how large law firms are utilising AI to make efficiency gains that benefit their clients.

Recent developments and future perspective of the SICC:

Through the experience of a diverse panel consisting of judges, practitioners, academics and in house counsel, discover the distinctiveness of the SICC and what it offers to international litigants.

It is essential for commercial dispute resolution lawyers, in the increasingly complex and interconnected world, to be able to navigate the cross-border, transnational litigation landscape. This panel will consider current hot topics in transnational disputes including judicial reform in Mexico; the treatment of online material depicting violence in Australia; conflict of laws in a copyright infringement case relating to a Hollywood blockbuster; judicial comity in Canadian courts; litigation involving tech giants in India as well as important case law from the SICC.