{"id":66132,"date":"2016-01-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f7fb1a38cc90e054705e8f35e7e9be54"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:05:00","slug":"news-story-crime-news-update-on-better-case-management-crown-court-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66132","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: update on Better Case Management Crown Court rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The majority of cases sent to the Crown Court are now subject to Better Case Management (BCM) principles and procedures.<\/p>\n

The aim of this initiative is to ensure there is a single, effective hearing before trial, known as the plea and trial preparation hearing (PTPH). <\/p>\n

The PTPH is normally expected to take place 28 days after the case has been sent from the magistrates court. The maximum time allowed, in special circumstances is 35 days.<\/p>\n

Key to making BCM work effectively is early pre-trial engagement between defence practitioners and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) once a case has been sent from the magistrates court.<\/p>\n

Digital working<\/h3>\n

The implementation of BCM is supported by the introduction of the Crown Court Digital Case System (DCS). Rollout of DCS will be completed by March 2016.<\/p>\n

The DCS allows criminal justice system partners to work more collaboratively in a secure, web-based environment.<\/p>\n

You can find out more by using the links below.<\/p>\n

What is the driver for these changes?<\/h3>\n

The BCM initiative builds on recommendations made by Sir Brian Leveson in his \u2018Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings\u2019. This was published in January 2015.<\/p>\n

Claiming fees<\/h3>\n

See below for guidance on making claims under the Litigator Graduated Fee Scheme and the Advocates\u2019 Graduated Fee Scheme.<\/p>\n

Further information<\/h3>\n

Courts and Tribunals Judiciary: Better Case Management<\/a><\/p>\n

Crown Court fee guidance<\/a><\/p>\n

Training for Crown Court Digital Case System<\/a> \u2013 6 January 2016 news story <\/p>\n

CCDCS online training<\/a><\/p>\n

Better Case Management rollout in England and Wales<\/a> \u2013 7 December 2015 news story<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initiative to deliver speedier justice known as Better Case Management became fully operational at sites on 5 January 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}