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20 January 2017 / Mark Solon
Issue: 7730 / Categories: Features , Expert Witness , Profession
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Mark Solon explores life in the clouds & explains why experts should expect a revolution

In November 2015, the government announced an investment of £738m in the courts and tribunal services (in reality it is over £1bn), to modernise and improve the way they are run. Some of this funding, approximately 40%, will be raised through the sale of existing underutilised court or tribunal estate and the reinvestment of those funds. HMCTS began to invest the money only very recently, in April 2016, and will continue to do so until 2022.

Since that announcement, very considerable work has been undertaken by certain judges and HMCTS to plan co-ordinate and deliver the reform programme, some of which was outlined by Lord Justice Fulford, senior presiding judge for England and Wales, when he addressed last year’s Annual Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference.

“As with all great revolutions, you either adapt rapidly or fade away,” he said. “I am sorry to be uncompromising but we have simply got to change, and judges, lawyers, witnesses and all others who

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