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FOCUS OF THE DAY: Sir Brian Leveson, the President of the Queen’s Division, has called for more sophisticated technology to be installed in the courts. In a speech to the Modernising Justice 2015 conference, in London this week, Sir Brian said technology was “essential” to any attempt to run the criminal justice system for less. “The amount of paper we now have to wrestle with is almost unmanageable and, on top of that, the amount of electronic material which emanates from e mails and a myriad of other sources is unimaginably huge,” he said. Full story - New Law Journal
FOCUS OF THE DAY: Sir Brian Leveson, the President of the Queen’s Division, has called for more sophisticated technology to be installed in the courts. In a speech to the Modernising Justice 2015 conference, in London this week, Sir Brian said technology was “essential” to any attempt to run the criminal justice system for less. “The amount of paper we now have to wrestle with is almost unmanageable and, on top of that, the amount of electronic material which emanates from e mails and a myriad of other sources is unimaginably huge,” he said. Full story - New Law Journal
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