All Courts business articles – Page 80
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NewsHMCTS staff spent 30,000 hours dealing with court IT chaos
Ministry of Justice says the January outage was reputationally damaging.
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NewsHigh Court quashes lawyer's decision not to prosecute police driver
Crown Prosecution Service says it is reflecting on critical judgment carefully.
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OpinionTop judges love modernisation - but how about the rest of us?
Senior judges are on board with the government's plans. But then, things probably look better from their vantage point.
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News‘The public like it’ - Judges back digital justice progress
Senior judiciary also seek to address misplaced concerns at appearance before MPs.
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NewsLabour vows to end 'scandal' of leasehold injustice
New route for redress proposed after party told that solicitors are warning leaseholders not to use tribunals.
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NewsProbate chaos nearing an end as backlog starts to be cleared
HMCTS also confirms it is going ahead with closure of regional probate registries.
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NewsMcFarlane unveils action plan for ‘unsustainable’ volume of family cases
Consultation opens on dozens of interim proposals to stop the system falling down.
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NewsCourts to consider wider consequences of arson and criminal damage
Sentencing Council says harm goes beyond the physical and financial as it unveils guidelines for judges and magistrates.
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NewsGovernment loses bid to take judges' pension dispute to Supreme Court
Treasury says it will now consider how best to compensate those affected by pension changes, which could cost the taxpayer £4bn a year.
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NewsMoJ publishes four-year-old research on unrepresented defendants
Report based on interviews with 15 judges and six prosecutors conducted in 2015.
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NewsPeers rein in government over sweeping Online Court powers
Government has also admitted that the courts and tribunals estate is being kept under review.
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News‘Troubling’ secrecy on court IT chaos
Justice minister Robert Buckland MP says report into January’s IT meltdown would not be made public.
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NewsMoJ reveals start date for testing of flexible court hours
Ministers promise ‘robust assessment’ will be made of the scheme being tested in Manchester and Brentford.
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NewsMcFarlane tells family lawyers: don't do more than a full day's work
Family division president says tweets highlighting unreasonable judicial behaviour will be followed up.
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NewsArms sales to Saudi Arabia ruled unlawful
UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia have been ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal following a challenge by pressure group Campaign Against Arms Trade. Giving judgment this morning, the court ruled that 'the process of decision-making by the government was wrong in law in one significant respect’ connected to ...
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NewsFrustrating and foreseeable: MPs call for national magistrates strategy
House of Commons justice select committee says Ministry of Justice is wrong to say morale is up.
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NewsCampaigners call for shared parenting presumption in the law
Eight in 10 respondents to YouGov survey think children should spend equal time with separated parents.
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NewsModel for online court moves in to RTA claims
British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal aims to take over 80% of motor vehicle cases in the jurisdiction.