# Continuous Adjudication **Domain:** Algorithmic Governance / Justice **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Continuous adjudication** is the migration of judgment from identifiable proceedings into persistent systems that classify, rank, flag, provision, throttle and allocate before any formal verdict occurs. Unlike episodic adjudication, it has no single courtroom or moment of judgment. A delay, risk flag, recommendation, ranking or missing opportunity can alter a life while every institution involved describes its own action as merely administrative. ## Constitutional Problem Distributed decisions can accumulate into a sentence without any actor acknowledging jurisdiction. [[wiki/Algorithmic Constitutionalism|Algorithmic Constitutionalism]] must therefore attach rights to consequential classification and allocation, not only to formally declared legal judgments. [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]], [[wiki/Score Separability|Score Separability]] and [[wiki/Epistemic Status Separation|Epistemic Status Separation]] prevent provisional inferences from hardening into permanent identity. [[wiki/Prediction Is Not Jurisdiction|Prediction Is Not Jurisdiction]] prevents attention or precaution from silently becoming punishment. ## Corpus Context [[articles/Ambiguity Will Destroy Man and Machine|Ambiguity Will Destroy Man and Machine]] describes continuous adjudication as the operating form of computational justice. [[articles/Peak Person and the Predicaments of Prediction|Peak Person and the Predicaments of Prediction]] shows its temporal danger: a forecast can close opportunities before the predicted conduct or decline occurs. ## Key Insight **When judgment becomes continuous and distributed, due process must follow effects rather than institutional labels.**