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In any system there is always room for sensible and reasonable improvement but I have absolutely no faith that these proposals will work. I was a fee paid, and then a salaried, judgefor 32 years and in that time I encountered innumerable failed MoJ IT projects. The success of these proposals is largely predicated upon the digitisation process but my future expectations are informed by my past experience and I think the whole thing will simply turn out to be a shambles. Senior civil servants will, of course, praise the new system to the skies but they would, wouldn’t they? In all my time in the judiciary I never came across any senior civil servant whose competence or efficiency I would trust. Supine members of the senior judiciary seem only too happy to sign up to these proposals which, in reality, have absolutely nothing to do with improving access to justice but everything to do with saving money. If the government used their energies In collecting the correct amount of tax from conniving and duplicitous multinational companies austerity measures would not have been necessary in the first place. The truth is that this government simply does not care about the justice system any more than it cares about the NHS.