Before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was perhaps not widely contemplated that courts and tribunals would soon have the capability and capacity to conduct the majority of their hearings on a virtual platform as a matter of course. However, due to the necessity of the hastened roll-out of the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), remote or hybrid hearings soon became the norm. With the pandemic behind us, it has become apparent that remote hearings in one form or another are here to stay. In fact, they may possibly even increase in future as economic realities dictate that further efficiencies (both in terms of ways of working and providing value for money) are found within the wider justice system. Could virtual hearings be the saviour of a justice system already crippled by years of underinvestment ...
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