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This is probably all very exciting if you’re a 23 year old NQ, but all I can say is thank God I’m ready to retire.
Does all this crap actually produce any better quality of justice? It seems to me to be like so much else that’s gone wrong with the civil justice system, a triumph of form over substance.
On what authority can the Birmingham Mercantile Court produce it’s own practice direction, purporting to levy a charge of £5 per page for paper documents? As far as I know, the only authority of the court to charge anything arises from the Senior Courts Act and the Fees Order made thereunder.
Furthermore, what is / are “selectable text, continuous versioning, search, annotation, bookmarking, hyperlinking facilities and commentary summary.”? I will bet quite a lot of money that these are marketing terms used by a particular private sector commercial provider of e-bundles.
For those of us who use open source software, this means nothing whatsoever.
Why does the document not instead refer to the standards, e.g. PDF 1.4? Or some other standard that provides for what it is the court is wanting?
And I missed the reference to “the bundle must be stored in the cloud” – more e-marketing nonsence being spouted there. NB, for those following the story about the female celebrities with their iphones, perhaps the realisation is beginning to dawn that “the cloud” does not exist. Data is not stored in “the cloud” What does exist is a computer somehwere, in someone else’s premises, and under someone else’s control, with the data being stored on that computer [with quite a number of other people having access to the data should they so wish].