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The present O ur progress to date Fiona Rutherford October 2016 An ambitious change programme 50% 7 years 75% 100% 15 years 6 years Just, accessible, proportionate Just decisions and outcomes are fair, the process is free of bias, like

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The present Our progress to date Fiona Rutherford

October 2016

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An ambitious change programme

50% 7 years 75% 15 years 100% 6 years

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Just, accessible, proportionate

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Just – decisions and outcomes are fair, the process is free of bias, like cases are treated alike, no types of users are disadvantaged, all litigants are able to state and defend their cases, and the workings of courts and tribunals are transparent. Accessible – the system is intelligible and available for use by all, convenient for those who cannot easily attend in person, and supportive of those not comfortable with the law or technology. Proportionate – the cost, speed, complexity, and degree of combativeness make sense and are appropriate to the nature and value of the dispute at issue.

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HMCTS reform is based on three ideas

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Get things out of the court room that don’t need to be there – the divorce application that could be made and managed online, the minor traffic

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Only apply the full force of judge and courtroom for very complex and sensitive issues – not preliminary hearings to agree process, or minor crimes. Strip away unnecessary hearings, paper forms and duplication – largely by moving to digital working but also new working practices.

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What this means in the criminal courts

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The Common Platform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGyOw9HqGDc&fe ature=em-share_video_user You can find out more about the objectives of this programme here:

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Charge to IDPC

https://commonplatform.wistia.com/medias/zr4o3qyczn

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Other developments in the criminal courts

Digital working Wi-fi for professional court users iPads for magistrates with access to vital resources New online rota service for magistrates Digital resulting system for magistrates’ courts in pilot Digital case system reducing paper in the Crown Courts

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2,000,000 4,000,000 6,000,000 8,000,000 10,000,000 12,000,000 14,000,000 16,000,000 18,000,000 10-Mar-16 10-Apr-16 10-May-16 10-Jun-16 10-Jul-16 10-Aug-16 10-Sep-16 10-Oct-16 10-Nov-16 Pages Linear (Pages)

World Trade Centre 540m

Note - 80 GSM A4 Copying Paper = 0.05mm

Pages of paper on DCS

Big Ben 96m St Mary’s Axe 180m The Shard 310m One Canada Square 240m

Paper saved in the Crown Courts

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His Honour Judge Levett: Digital Case System

You can register and enter the training site here: https://ccdcstraining.caselines.co.uk/

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Modernising civil, family and tribunals

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Complex processes 40 – 75% failure demand

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Help with Fees

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From this…

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…to this (divorce)

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…and this (probate)

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Wi-Fi installed in CFT spaces in 45 Combined Courts. Centralised the handling of key enforcement orders for civil cases in Salford Piloted extended sitting day for civil cases in the Midlands – with reduced waiting times and positive feedback from court. New IT infrastructure delivered in the Rolls Building for all jurisdictions enabling the courts to work digitally. Continuous online hearing being tested in the Traffic Penalty Tribunals

Elsewhere in civil, family and tribunals

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Case officers

Cross-jurisdictional developments

Virtual hearings Estates and the ‘court of the future’

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Wider Judiciary

  • Senior Judicial Steering Group
  • Judicial Engagement Groups (JEGS)

For Crime, Civil, Family, Tribunal and specialist groups looking at Case Officers and Virtual Hearings

  • Magistrates’ Engagement Group

(MEG)

  • Local Leadership Groups (LLG) For

the Judiciary and HMCTS staff

  • Project Level Engagement –
  • Judicial leads embedded within

projects

  • Conferences

Eg NBCF, Resident Judges Conference, Judicial Leadership Conference

User Groups

  • Litigants in Person Engagement Group

(membership includes: CAB, Corum, Advice UK)

  • Equalities Engagement Group (currently being

established) to represent most vulnerable users; will include: Age UK, Mind, Stonewall, Race Equality Foundation

Criminal Justice Partners

  • Criminal Justice Working Group

CPS, Policing (incl: National Police Crime Commissioners, Association of Police Constables), Home Office (including Digital First Programme), NOMS (National Probation Service and Prison Reform), AGO and the Legal Aid Agency

Other Government Departments (OGD)

  • Official meetings
  • Project level engagement
  • OGD Engagement Group

(soon to be established)

Legal Professional Engagement

  • 4 jurisdictionally split Professional

Engagement Groups for Crime, Civil, Family and Tribunals meet quarterly (leads for these groups to be circulated in a forthcoming edition of BarTalk)

  • From these ‘ProfEGs’ sub-groups

are being formed to assist with specific modernisation projects

  • Regular meetings with Bar

Council, Law Society, CILEx

  • utside of groups and other key

representative bodies

  • Legal professionals are assisting

with Professional User Research: e.g. Court of the Future and Online Civil Money Claims projects

Engagement