The justice secretary, David Gauke, recently appointed Tim Parker, a former boss of Kwik-Fit and the AA, as chair of its board. In lower-level cases, such as TV licence evasion, the reforms aim to allow the entire process to be completed on the internet. Technology will also be at the forefront of efforts to reduce the number of cases requiring a physical hearing in the civil and family courts and tribunals. MoJ spending huge sums on consultants to help deliver digital courts Read moreThe NAO said delivering the reforms successfully remains “extremely challenging”. Penelope Gibbs, director of the organisation Transform Justice, said: “Its hard not to see the government’s digital court reform programme as designed more in hope than expectation.

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2018 23:02 UTC