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NLJ this week: Too ambitious? Damning verdict on courts modernisation programme

04 August 2023
Issue: 8036 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Profession
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What are they really saying? NLJ columnist and former director of Justice, Roger Smith translates the ‘urbane language’ of the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee in this week’s issue, as he casts a critical eye on the progress of the courts & tribunals modernisation programme.

Smith writes: ‘The programme has been beset by problems and is largely regarded as having been far too ambitious.’ Moreover, the whole project, initially intended to save the public purse, has come adrift from its original purpose.

Smith’s verdict on the programme is less than flattering: read his conclusions here.

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