When Simple Procedure was first introduced in November 2016 to deal with cases up to the value of £5,000 an online case management system was promised to go with it. Our article, There’s a Simple Procedure for dealing with commercial debt recovery by Marianne Stirling in November 2017 assessed the new procedures in the lead up to the delayed online system, branded as ‘Civil Online’ going live on 13 March 2018 and then our article Civil Online is now live in March 2018 announced its launch.
Now that we are over a year and a half down the line, questions are being asked about the success of its introduction and the ways that it can be used in the future to move the court system into the digital age.
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