By Jo Best, 23 April 2004 15:25
NEWS The government has announced that the Welsh Crown Court has just completed work on a new £1.9m IT infrastructure.
Cardiff is the latest Crown Court to install the LINK system which has been rolled out in approximately half the Crown Courts in England and Wales and will be supplying cabling and computing to modernise the Courts' desktops and email system.
The system will also support video evidence, enabling witnesses or defendants to give their evidence remotely.
Judges will also be able to research cases and evidence via the net and the various arms of the court system will be able to exchange information and court documents over secure email, making communication faster and more efficient.
It's also hoped that the new infrastructure and secure email will bolster confidence in the court system by connecting the public directly to the legal system.
Nick Williamson, court manager for Cardiff Crown Court, told silicon.com that the new infrastructure will promote accessibility to the judicial system.
"The infrastructure will enable us to build on our current IT facilities, with the addition that our staff have email - they can communicate with users far more quickly and the person to whom user communicates with gets an answer back directly from them," he said.
Cardiff Crown Court deals with about 1,500 committals for trial and almost 500 committals for sentence a year.
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