This paper examines the opportunities and risks of e-justice from a development lens providing concrete parameters for responsible digitalization in the legal sector and illustrates the trends that have emerged from the digitalization of the justice sector in recent years. To explore this, the author has conducted extensive consultations across the UNDP network at country, regional and global levels and based her findings on innovative case studies. As a complement to this paper, a set of tools have been designed to help practitioners quickly understand e-justice initiatives and bring a human rights-based framework to the design, implementation and monitoring of e-justice as a part of UNDP’s digitalization efforts.