Disappointed judges

We haven’t gone as far as we liked, HMCTS admits

A senior appeal judge has expressed “deep disappointment” at the government’s failure to digitise the civil justice system of England and Wales during the course of an eight-year reform programme that ended last week.

Sir Peter Coulson

Sir Peter Coulson, who sits in the Court of Appeal as Lord Justice Coulson, added that potentially valid claims were being put at risk by the failings of HM Courts and Tribunals Service, an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice. “We haven’t gone as far as we liked,” the agency’s head admitted last week.