Dear members,

 

Please see attached a notice from HMCTS regarding reforms to court administration.

 

The direction of travel is to have greater centralisation of court administration.  They intend to roll out online-plea procedures for low level offences and these Courts & Tribunals Service Centres will be there to provide access to the ‘non-digitally enabled court users’ to adopt their terminology.

 

From our point of view I would imagine we will communicate with HMCTS at a single location to enquire about all local court hearings.

 

Kind regards,

 

Mark Troman

 

From: Loft, Tash [mailto:tash.loft@Justice.gov.uk]
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Subject: Crime Professional Engagement - Location of Courts & Tribunals Service Centres announced

 

Good Afternoon

 

I am sharing with you the announcement made today by HMCTS regarding the location of the first 2 Courts and Tribunals Service Centres, along with proposals to move collection of criminal fines into three centres – details are included in the attached note and here is a link to the press statement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-courts-tribunals-service-centres-launched

 

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to get in touch.

 

 

Kind regards

 

Tash

 

Natasha Loft

Stakeholder Manager, Legal Professionals

Courts & Tribunals Development Directorate

6.23| 102 Petty France |London |SW1H 9AJ

Email: tash.loft@justice.gov.uk

Tel: 0203 334 0543 Mob: 07989660554

 

https://insidehmcts.blog.gov.uk/

 

 

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