The Jersey Appeal Court aims to pilot a project before the end of year under which an appeal will be heard without any use of paper. The long-term strategy in Jersey has long included this idea, but practitioners seem to have been taken by surprise when the Bailiff announced the plan in his speech to open the new term on 15 September.
The speech in fact refers only to authorities and submissions, and the passage concludes by saying
If successful, the pilot will be repeated in the Royal Court next year, and that will lead in short order to the ability to file pleadings and other documentation with the Judicial Greffe electronically.
I am not sure that litigation support providers should be racing across the Channel just yet, as I heard someone suggest a few days ago. I would, however, be interested to know how the experiment goes.
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