The courts and tribunals modernisation programme is to end a year later than originally planned. HM Courts & Tribunals Service confirmed this week that the £1bn programme will now finish in 2023 to 'allow more time to develop some of the shared systems that sit behind our next set of online services'. So far, progress has included a pilot of fully-video hearings in the tax tribunals; a national system to digitally record the result of court cases; a civil money claims service with more than 51,000 claims made since its launch in March 2018; and online divorce and probate services.
06 March 2019
Modernisation programme extended
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