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29 March 2018
Issue: 7787 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Technology
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Technology at trial: paperless trials?

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Technological change in the courtroom has proceeded at a slow pace, Michael Fletcher of Pinsent Masons and Helen Pugh of 3 Hare Court write in NLJ this week.

The concept of ‘paperless trials’ may have been around for many years, but they are still rare (at best) at county court level, and it is only in this decade that High Court trials have used electronic bundles. At the state-of-the-art Rolls Building, meanwhile, lever-arch files appear on the courtroom shelves despite the technology available. Fletcher and Pugh argue that the technology available is being underused and there remains untapped potential.

Issue: 7787 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Technology
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