'Virtual' courtrooms are to be trialled from April 20 in response to the Covid-19 crisis. High Court civil matters, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court hearings are expected to feature in the pilot. The announcement, made by the presidents of the five courts, comes just days after an English High Court trial was conducted using video conferencing service Zoom and streamed on YouTube for the first time. Virtual courts are part of an as-yet-unpublished blueprint for the modernisation of the Irish courts over the next decade, details of which were revealed by the Irish Independent in January. Irish Independent

Source: Irish Independent April 01, 2020 01:30 UTC