Courts minister Sarah Sackman is a great enthusiast for digitising the justice system. At this week's Legal Geek networking event she explained a possible reason why.
It was one of her first cases as a young barrister, involving the closure of a hospital cafe which was serving 'very grubby sandwiches', she recalled. 'When I had to produce evidence, an environmental health officer handed me a plastic bag containing two very real and very dead mice'.
Whether the evidence impressed the court - and what happened to it subsequently - she decined to say. But she contrasted the experience with today's digital practices, where the offending corpses would be presented as an image on a mobile phone. There was little doubt which she prefers.
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