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Why is it that it's the judiciary, who have no experience of dealing with solicitors' accounts and time recording and so forth, who think of these wonderful "improvements". It will require all our accounting system providers to revamp their software to include all these codings (and there are pages and pages of them) and then we'll still have to go through everything to make sure that we've got a disbursement down as an X144 and not an X130.

If this is going to happen we need to be assured that the court service software can cope and we already know that it's several iterations behind current. We also need to be assured that we are not going to have to re-code all our work in progress and that this should apply only to matters after the commencement date, whenever that might be.
As is said, this is not something that can be piloted because of the software changes needed at the solicitors' end.
is there a competition among the judiciary to see who can claim to be the most systems-literate?