Justice David M. Masuhara

Supreme Court of British Columbia

Justice Masuhara is a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. He was appointed in 2002 and sits in Vancouver, B.C. as senior judge. He is the chair of the Joint Courts Technology Committee (Court of Appeal and Supreme Court); a member of the British Columbia Court Services Technology Board; former chair of the Judicom Advisory Board (Office of the Federal Commissioner for Judicial Affairs), and former governor of the Law Foundation of B.C. He is a frequent speaker on technology and class actions. In 2018 he completed a term as the Inns of Court Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. His area of research was artificial intelligence and adjudication. He is presently participating in a provincial initiative to leverage innovative AI technologies that will assist the justice system in enhancing access to justice and modernizing court processes. More recently he has been significantly engaged in developing and testing platforms for video hearings and electronic document presentment for the court.