At the 15th meeting of the working group on cyberjustice and AI, the main topics discussed concerned the legal and practical implications of ‘deepfakes’ generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of electronic evidence. The guidelines currently being drawn up will set out the regulatory and operational aspects to be implemented when dealing with AI-processed evidence in the courts.

Discussions also centred on the opportunities offered by the automation of judicial procedures with or without artificial intelligence  to improve the efficiency and quality of justice, as well as on the safeguards needed to preserve the human dimension of judicial activity, judicial independence and the fundamental principles of the rule of law.

Automated justice will also be the main theme of the 2026 meeting of the European Cyberjustice Network (ECN), to be held on 2 December in Strasbourg.

Another tool, currently under development, will address the issue of judicial independence in the digital age, with a view to ensuring data sovereignty.

A progress report on the current project to develop a CEPEJ Observatory for AI in justice   aimed at enriching the CEPEJ Resource Centre on cyberjustice and AI was presented, following the call for contributions issued to Member States on this subject.

This meeting also provided an opportunity to discuss various tasks to be carried out in coordination with other CEPEJ working groups, notably a forthcoming report on the digitalisation of the justice system in cooperation with the CEPEJ Working Group on the Evaluation of Judicial Systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL), the forthcoming guidelines on the enforcement of decisions in civil and commercial matters, drawn up by the CEPEJ Working Group on the Efficiency of Judicial Proceedings (CEPEJ-GT-EFF).