Guidance

HMCTS weekly operational summary

A weekly summary of the latest HM Courts and Tribunals Service operational position for users. We aim to update this every Friday at 4pm.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Published
21 May 2021
Last updated
2925 April 2022 — See all updates

We email our weekly operational update to our subscribers on Sunday evenings, and share on social media on Monday mornings. Follow us on Twitter to check for daily or urgent updates.

HMCTS operational summary for week commencing Monday 225 MayApril 2022

Next week’s update will be issued on Friday 629 MayApril 2022.

Crime

  • Reminder: Common Platform is now live in 11 additional criminal courts in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. See the full list of participating courts where Common Platform is in use.
  • Reminder: We published guidance for defence professionals on how to use Common Platform, and guidance for organisational administrators at legal firms and chambers on creating user accounts, assigning roles, and other system tasks.
  • Reminder: Defence solicitors and barristers attending court for a Common Platform hearing should use the professional check-in feature, in both the Crown and magistrates’ courts.
  • Reminder: If you have a Common Platform account, you need to login at least once every 90 days to keep it active. If your account is inactive for 90 days, it will be deregistered for security reasons. If you are deregistered, ask your organisation administrator to re-register you.

Family

  • Reminder:Updated: MyHMCTS has been updated to fix a known issue that meant divorce cases were not visible on solicitors’ dashboards. The issue is now resolved so you can progress and assign cases as usual.
  • Updated: We published guidance videos to outline the steps a user should take to submit a contested financial remedy application and how a user can organise payments for their applications on our YouTube channel.
  • Reminder: We hosted a webinar for legal professionals to demonstrate our new online divorce service. A recording of the session is now available to watch on our YouTube channel.
  • Reminder: Our updated online divorce service went live on Wednesday 6 April 2022. The service includes changes as a result of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, which reforms the legal requirements and process for divorce.

Judicial guidance and announcements

Previous editions

Published 21 May 2021
Last updated 2925 April 2022 + show all updates

  1. Update for week commencing Monday 2 May 2022.

  2. Added translation

  3. Update for week commencing Monday 25 April 2022 published.

  4. Added translation

  5. Update for week commencing Monday 18 April 2022 published.

  6. Update for week commencing Monday 11 April 2022 published.

  7. Added translation

  8. Update for week commencing Monday 4 April 2022 published.

  9. Added translation

  10. Update for week commencing Monday 28 March 2022 published.

  11. Added translation

  12. Update on Common Platform added.

  13. Update for week commencing Monday 21 March 2022 published.

  14. Added translation

  15. Update for week commencing Monday 14 March 2022 published.

  16. Added translation

  17. Added translation

  18. Update for week commencing Monday 7 March 2022 published.

  19. Added translation

  20. Update for week commencing Monday 28 February 2022 published.

  21. Added translation

  22. Update for week commencing Monday 21 February 2022 published.

  23. Added translation

  24. Update for week commencing Monday 14 February 2022 published.

  25. Added translation

  26. Update for week commencing Monday 7 February 2022 published.

  27. Update for week commencing Monday 31 January 2022 published.

  28. Added translation

  29. Update for week commencing Monday 24 January 2022 published.

  30. Added translation

  31. Update for week commencing Monday 17 January 2022 published.

  32. Update for week commencing Monday 10 January 2022 published.

  33. Added translation

  34. Update for week commencing Monday 3 January 2022 published.

  35. Update for week commencing Monday 20 December 2021 published.

  36. Added translation

  37. Update for week commencing Monday 13 December 2021 published.

  38. Update for week commencing Monday 6 December 2021 published.

  39. Added translation

  40. Update for week commencing Monday 29 November published.

  41. Added translation

  42. Update for week commencing Monday 22 November 2021 published.

  43. Added translation

  44. Update for week commencing Monday 15 November published.

  45. Page updated with changes to HMCTS operations for week commencing 8 Nov 2021.

  46. Update for week commencing Monday 1 November 2021 published.

  47. Added translation

  48. Update for week commencing Monday 25 October published.

  49. Update for week commencing Monday 18 October 2021 published.

  50. Added translation

  51. Update for week commencing Monday 11 October 2021 published.

  52. Update for week commencing Monday 4 October 2021 published.

  53. Added translation

  54. Update for week commencing Monday 27 September published.

  55. Added translation

  56. Update for week commencing Monday 20 September 2021 published.

  57. Added translation

  58. Update for week commencing Monday 13 September published.

  59. Update for week commencing Monday 6 September 2021 published.

  60. Added translation

  61. Update for week commencing Monday 30 August 2021 published.

  62. Added translation

  63. Updated for week commencing Monday 23 August 2021.

  64. Welsh translation added.

  65. Update for week commencing Monday 16 August 2021 published.

  66. Added translation

  67. Update for week commencing Monday 9 August 2021 published.

  68. Added translation

  69. Update for week commencing Monday 2 August 2021 published.

  70. Added translation

  71. Update for week commencing Monday 26 July 2021 published.

  72. Added translation

  73. Updated COVID guidance pages added.

  74. Update for week commencing Monday 19 July 2021 published.

  75. Added translation

  76. Update for week commencing Monday 12 July published.

  77. Added translation

  78. Update for week commencing Monday 5 July 2021.

  79. Added translation

  80. Update for week commencing Monday 28 June 2021 published.

  81. Added translation

  82. Update for week commencing Monday 21 June 2021 published.

  83. Added translation

  84. Update for week commencing Monday 14 June 2021 published.

  85. Added translation

  86. Update for week commencing Monday 7 June 2021 published.

  87. Update for week commencing Monday 31 May 2021 published.

  88. Added translation

  89. Added line on operational status of courts in areas where COVID19 variant is spreading.

  90. First published.

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