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New Civil Justice Council report on the impact of COVID-19 on civil court users

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The Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton, the chair of the independent Civil Justice Council and Head of Civil Justice, has welcomed the Civil Justice Council’s rapid review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the civil justice system ...

“I am immensely grateful to the members of the working group for producing this report and especially to Dr Natalie Byrom of the Legal Education Foundation, who undertook the lead on the review. The report is the result of an astonishing effort by all involved to produce such an informative report in a very short period of time, there were well over 1000 responses to the review.

The report provides a valuable snapshot of the effect of the pandemic on civil court users relatively soon after the pandemic began. I hope it will form a useful basis for further research and review in due course. The report makes a number of recommendations which we will consider carefully ...”

https://www.judiciary.uk/announcements/civil-justice-council-report-on-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-civil-court-users-published/

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Blog post on the CJC report from Roger Smith:

If you are interested in remote courts then you should read, in full, the report of the Civil Justice Council released last week. .... a natty bit of footwork and an excellent contribution to our understanding of digital courts. There are some lessons here for how court modernisation should proceed – in any jurisdiction.

More: https://law-tech-a2j.org/odr/remote-courts-a-must-read/