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The Criminal Bar Association said in February that the scheme, which it described as discriminatory , had been
abandoned. The government subsequently said the Covid Operating Hours proposal was
Last week, in a
speech delivered at the Law Society, lord chancellor Robert Buckland said Crown courts would be authorised ‘to work at full throttle’ to clear the court backlog. This week, Women in Criminal Law, a practitioner group, revealed that Northampton Crown Court is proposing to introduce what appears to be the Covid Operating Hours model.
The group received an email, which said: ‘The Crown Court at Northampton is looking to increase its trial capacity so that older bail cases that are currently waiting to get on can be listed for trial. The hours are 9 to 1 and then 2 to 6.’ A meeting to discuss the proposal with Northampton s resident judge will take place next week.
Civil court users have criticised the use of remote hearings as ‘fragmented’ and inconsistent, calling for improvements as the pandemic abates.
Writing for Gazette Online, Michael Javaherian, vice chair of the Civil Court Users Association (CCUA), notes that modes of delivering remote hearings differ widely. They can involve parties being required to phone the court or supply an email so they can be sent a link to join a remote platform such as Teams or Skype. Other methods include requiring parties to arrange phone conferences or video hearings to which parties must facilitate access via a link.
‘This fragmentation has presented difficulties, since it is sometimes unclear which of the methods shall be used,’ says Javaherian. ‘The problem is compounded by the fact that a number of notices of hearing published and distributed by courts have been ambiguous as to platform, raising confusion. At other times, notices of hearing have neglected to mention whether or not the hear
By Gazette reporter24 May 2021
Civil court users have criticised the use of remote hearings as ‘fragmented’ and inconsistent, calling for improvements as the pandemic abates.
Writing for Gazette Online, Michael Javaherian, vice chair of the Civil Court Users Association (CCUA), notes that modes of delivering remote hearings differ widely. They can involve parties being required to phone the court or supply an email so they can be sent a link to join a remote platform such as Teams or Skype. Other methods include requiring parties to arrange phone conferences or video hearings to which parties must facilitate access via a link.