“EFFICIENCY” AND THE COURT SYSTEM 3: WANT TO BE A LAWYER? BUY YOURSELF A SELFIE STICK

September 18, 2018 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Bundles, Civil evidence, Members Content

In the third (and I suspect not the last) I want to set out a series of tweets which arose from the earlier posts on this topic. There were a series of tweets about the problems caused by courts losing documents, and denying they ever had them. This led to a number of practitioners reported that th...

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Tags: Access to Justice, Court management

4 Responses

@hampshirelawyer · September 18, 2018 at 08:45:45 · →

What a very sorry state of affairs these posts show. Shocking.
Tony Kazaz · September 18, 2018 at 09:26:43 · →

If it is by trial to search for truth, then perhaps there is need first to find a place where it exists.
Paul Sachs · September 18, 2018 at 21:06:20 · →

Some developing countries are moving to digital case systems in the cloud precisely because the filing of documents is electronically noted and cannot be ‘lost’. The CaseLines system in the crown courts already works in this way and the date, time and person who loaded each individual document is recorded and available on the screen to all who have access to the case.

No need for selfies there.

We hope the civil courts of England & Wales can make the same move.
Michael Baxendale · September 19, 2018 at 14:35:25 · →

I think that it is increasingly apparent that these problems are much more rife in certain courts than others. Serious questions need to be asked about the method of recruitment of court staff and as to whether in some courts persons are being employed who lack the skills and competence to work in this very important sphere.