Consultation on 바카라 사이트楥OVID operating hours바카라 사이트� in Crown Courts
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Having considered the responses to the consultation and assessed the current situation, the Lord Chancellor has taken the decision to endorse - on a short-term, timebound basis - a flexible approach (known as 바카라 사이트榯emporary operating arrangements바카라 사이트�) that supports Resident Judges who wish to:
- sit different hours to recover from the impact of the pandemic on their local caseloads
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These measures are temporary and timebound. They will come to an end바카라 사이트痵ix바카라 사이트痬onths after any court chooses to implement them and we will carefully monitor their impact. It is one measure in the suite of recovery activity (such as remote hearings) available to Resident Judges as an option should they want to use it, and will not be mandated across courts and tribunals.
Any use of these models is at the discretion of the local judiciary and should follow careful discussion and consideration with local court users, including legal practitioners.
Original consultation
Consultation description
As part of HMCTS바카라 사이트� Crime Recovery Plan, one of the four pillars to recovery is to further maximise the use of our existing estate through opening our buildings for longer during coronavirus (COVID-19). The pandemic and its necessary countermeasures are an unprecedented challenge to the courts and tribunals which merits an unprecedented response.
COVID operating hours (COH) were piloted in seven Crown Court centres to test whether we could do more in the limited space we have to support recovery. The pilots were unrelated to previous pilots which have tested extended and flexible operating hours in the civil and family courts. They were purposefully designed to respond to the impacts of COVID-19, and to be a temporary response to increase capacity.
Following the pilots of COH at Crown Court locations around the country, assessment data was collected from each site to assess the impacts of COH and how effectively the pilots met the aim of increasing capacity to reduce backlogs. HMCTS then undertook a short, targeted consultation with the legal professions on the key findings from the assessment of the pilot sites and a proposal to widen the use of COH across more Crown court centres.
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Welsh language response documents published.
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