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Video hearings can make a difference for court and tribunal users

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Susan Acland-Hood explains that one important part of our overall reform programme to build a more modern, accessible and efficient justice system, is to enable our courts to make greater use of video technology. Susan details that with increasing sophistication in the technology available, we believe it can play an even greater role in the future and in particular, could enable some hearings to take place without the need for a physical courtroom altogether.

Designing a public law service to meet user needs

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Emma Petty, Service Manager for the Public Law project provides an update on the project, its aims, and how it will be delivered. Our Public Law project sits in the family jurisdiction and forms part of the wider HMCTS £1bn reform programme. In October 2017, we set out our intention to reform the service around taking a public law case to and through court.

Successful reform roadshows - more dates announced...

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Susan Acland-Hood talks about our first three legal professional roadshows and how they were full of ideas, commitment and challenge that discussed the overall reform programme with a particular focus on scheduling and listing practice, flexible operating hours and virtual hearings.

Common Platform Identity and Access Management Service – more than just logging on and logging off

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A blog post from Linda Green on the Identity and Access Management service, the functionality within the Common Platform that allows different users to have an identity on the system and ability to sign in and access the various services. It also provides a service for administrators to create, update, manage and remove organisations and users.

Susan Acland-Hood sets out our priorities for the next phase of courts and tribunals reform

A blog post from Susan Acland-Hood in which she talks about what is planned on courts and tribunals reform over the next 18 months. This includes taking the things we’ve begun to develop so far and building them out further.

Helping people access our services online

A blog post from Mike Brazier who work in HMCTS’s Accessibility and Inclusion Team. Mike talks about how his team is responsible for ensuring we help and support people who are not online make sure that they can also experience the benefits of using our online services.