This year, too, we invited interesting professionals to join the jury and the panel. A great way to test whether their concepts have potential and to further explore current, social, legal developments. The latter we did by means of an interactive debate between Raymond Blijd, Andrea Leiter, Pieter van der Hoeven and Wilfried de Wever. Here, we presented theses on topics such as cryptocurrency and its impact on our society and the development of 'effective' legal tech initiatives by the Dutch government. Each of the panellists had their own way of moving the audience - based on their knowledge and background - from 'for' to 'against' with convincing arguments. This resulted in both instructive and comical moments. 

The winning idea

In the end, the jury consisting of Pablo van Klinken (Innovative Entrepreneur within the Legal Sector), Jelle van Veenen (Innovation Manager at Kennedy van der Laan), Jacomine Kuijt (Senior Policy Officer at the Raad) and Victor Bey-Smith (Director ASIF Ventures) chose the three most innovative ideas which were awarded a prize. 

The plan that won the title Justice Entrepreneur of 2022 was 'The Little Law Student' by 23-year-old master's student Claudia Ghannam. With her idea, she hopes to simplify the caseload that law students have to deal with during their studies, by means of cartoons. In addition, students also learn how to work more efficiently. 

Number two was the advisory service to help tenants with defects in their homes, called 'Tenet'. Finally, in third place was 'Just in Case': a social enterprise that wants to help students from the CAS islands (Curaçao, Aruba and St. Maarten) to reduce their study debt. How? By helping them apply for financial aid that is often overlooked - or even completely unknown to them.