Member

I have one caveat and one question. The caveat is that, as we made clear in 2022, our support for the development of online procedures was on the basis that access to courts would not be adversely affected for those who are often termed “the digitally disadvantaged”. By that, we mean: first, those who are, for whatever reason, not skilled with computers and working online; secondly, those who simply cannot afford computer equipment or otherwise do not have access to it; and, thirdly, those who still do not have access to fast or effective broadband—far too many people, in our view—and so are unable to access these procedures.