Creating safe spaces for socially distanced Crown Court trials
A blog post from Paul Harris, Operations Director at HMCTS, on the work to make over 250 courtrooms available to safely hold jury trials since the coronavirus pandemic.
Crime
Giving our users an insight into reform
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Olivia Jorgensen-Aitchison, Posted on:
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Civil, Court and tribunal reform, Crime, Digital services, Family
Olivia Jorgenson-Aitchison, Head of Public User Engagement at HMCTS explains how members of the public and court users can engage directly with the services we are currently reforming by attending our annual Public User Event, which will be held virtually this year on Tuesday 3 – Thursday 5 November.
Designing safe spaces in Leeds Crown Court
Alan Wraithmell, delivery manager, explains how Leeds Crown Court are ensuring jury trials run as safely as possible.
Surviving plagues, pestilence and pandemics: overcoming challenge in the magistrates’ courts
A blog post from Acting HMCTS CEO Kevin Sadler, who talks about the challenges magistrates' courts have faced due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Next steps towards recovery in the Crown Court
In this blog, HMCTS Strategy and Change Director, Gemma Hewison, provides more details about our steps towards recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic and highlights some of the collaborative work that has been going on with our justice partners.
Protecting the vulnerable with s.28
A blog about the impact of s.28 measures on victims and witnesses, including children, and plans for a national rollout by the end of the year.
User research and insight during COVID-19
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Luc Altmann, Head of Insight, Posted on:
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Categories:
Civil, Court and tribunal reform, Crime, Family, Training and support
[English] - [Cymraeg] The Insight and User Research team is dedicated to using evidence to help make decisions across HMCTS. I want to tell you how we’ve been doing that over the last few months of the pandemic. The health …
Recovery in the Crown Court
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Susan Acland-Hood, Posted on:
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Categories:
Civil, Court and tribunal reform, Crime, Digital services, Family, Tribunals
Susan Acland-Hood talks about our recovery plan with a focus on the Crown Court – which is where we have some of our most significant challenges, because of the difficulty of doing jury trials with social distancing.
Coronavirus: recovering in our courts and tribunals
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Susan Acland-Hood, Posted on:
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Categories:
Civil, Court and tribunal reform, Crime, Family, Tribunals
Susan sets out the steps being taken by HMCTS in shifting focus from the emergency response to one of operational recovery in our courts and tribunals.
Enabling criminal hearings on video during coronavirus
John Rigg talks about his work on the rollout of the cloud video platform videoconferencing system to Crown and magistrates’ courts.
