Pilot of rapid COVID-19 testing at Southwark Crown Court

Lateral flow tests are currently available for people attending a scheduled hearing who are not showing any symptoms of coronavirus.

Common Platform is live at more criminal courts

The new, digital case management system is now live in Bristol and Guildford Crown and Magistrates' Courts, and Staines Magistrates' Court.

New evidence presentation system is rolling out to courts

It will replace Clickshare, the current system used in Crown and magistrates’ courts for presenting multi-media evidence. Rollout will be complete by the end of July 2021.

New laws to protect victims added to Domestic Abuse Bill

The proposals include making non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence, punishable by up to five years in prison.

MyHMCTS at one year old

A blog post reflecting on its development, enabling legal professionals to manage applications across a range of services in tribunals, civil and family jurisdictions.

HMCTS published the latest management information used for understanding workload volumes and timeliness at a national level, to December 2020.

Read this blog post for an account of how a court clerk and an usher support court hearings, and how one colleague has had to adapt, working through the pandemic.

The Legal Services is GREAT virtual trade mission is supporting legal professionals in expanding their businesses internationally.

The Crown Prosecution Service is now able to serve non-sensitive disclosed material on the Digital Case System after changes to their own Case Management System.

Probate practitioners submitting applications on MyHMCTS now need to confirm that 20 working days have elapsed since they submitted form IHT400 to HMRC.

Changes have been made to the Practice Directions supplementing the Family Procedure Rules 2010. 

Following government's recent COVID-19 response, HMCTS continues to support the Lord Chief Justice's recommendation for holding remote hearings where possible.

Jurors must now wear fluid resistant surgical masks in smaller deliberation rooms and we have amended our organisational risk assessment accordingly.