The rectification (and construction) of computer-generated documents

Whayman, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1026-5646 (2019) The rectification (and construction) of computer-generated documents. King's Law Journal, 30 (3). pp. 489-516. ISSN 1757-8442 doi: 10.1080/09615768.2019.1687930

Abstract/Summary

This article considers the issues concerning the rectification and construction of computer-generated legal documents, whether bilateral instruments such as contracts or unilateral instruments such as wills. There will inevitably be errors in some of these documents due to bugs in the computer programs that direct the document assembly process of producing them from a set of precedents. It considers how the law, never designed for this novel situation, will be applied or developed.There are particular difficulties for wills because the law was set down in in the Administration of Justice Act 1982, ss 20–21, and statutory law is less flexible than judge-made law. This article also presents the results of a small investigation, revealing errors actually made in commercially available generated wills, showing the problem is not merely theoretical.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/117609
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/09615768.2019.1687930
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	Hart Publishing
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