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href="https://www.publictechnology.net/2024/03/07/public-order-justice-and-rights/common-platform-hmcts-opts-to-retain-existing-case-management-tool-for-criminal-courts/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.publictechnology.net/2024/03/07/public-order-justice-and-rights/common-platform-hmcts-opts-to-retain-existing-case-management-tool-for-criminal-courts/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">retaining the existing Digital Case System</a> used to support Crown Court hearings. The plan had originally been to replace this with a tailored application created as part of the wider £300m Common Platform rollout.</p> <p>But the existing program was retained in order “to protect operational performance of the criminal courts”, HM Courts and Tribunals Service chief executive Nick Goodwin said at the time.</p><script type="text/plain" data-tcf="waiting-for-consent" data-id="7103" data-bid="1" 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<p>The newly published MoJ annual report and accounts for FY24 reveal that the decision to scrap the plans to switch IT systems led to a financial loss of over £5m for the ministry.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related content</h3> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="https://www.publictechnology.net/2023/08/07/public-order-justice-and-rights/all-criminal-courts-now-using-common-platform-it-system/">All criminal court</a><a href="https://www.publictechnology.net/2023/08/07/public-order-justice-and-rights/all-criminal-courts-now-using-common-platform-it-system/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">s now using Co</a><a href="https://www.publictechnology.net/2023/08/07/public-order-justice-and-rights/all-criminal-courts-now-using-common-platform-it-system/">mmon Platform IT system</a></li> <li><a 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