Online momentum
By Nicola Laver
The inaugural master of the rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, has set out his vision for civil justice reform which would see claimants start all claims online, creating a ‘single transferrable data set’ before entering a digital court process, the Law Society Gazette reported. Sir Vos said: “As head of civil justice I will be able to establish a direction of travel for an online justice system’. But he acknowledged there will be larger or more intractable problems” that will still require lawyers.
29 January 2021