HMCTS Common Platform: participating criminal courts

Common Platform is a digital case management system. It helps users manage and share criminal case information more effectively. This includes HMCTS staff, the judiciary and professional court users such as defence lawyers and the Crown Prosecution Service.

To use the service, you must have an account. If you are a defence professional, your firm or chambers must register you for your account.

Once your organisation has registered and you have activated your account, you can start accessing cases in Common Platform.

Common Platform is now operational at these courts in our regions:

London

• Ealing Magistrates’ Court
• Harrow Crown Court
• Isleworth Crown Court
• Kingston Crown Court
• Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court
• Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court
• Willesden Magistrates’ Court
• Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court

Midlands

• Boston Magistrates’ Court
• Cannock Magistrates’ Court
• Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court
• Derby Crown Court
• Derby Magistrates’ Court
• Hereford Magistrates’ Court
• Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court
• Lincoln Crown Court
• Lincoln Magistrates’ Court
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates’ Court (North Staffordshire Justice Centre)
• Redditch Magistrates’ Court
• Shrewsbury Crown Court
• Stafford Crown Court
• Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court
• Telford Magistrates’ Court
• Worcester Crown Court
• Worcester Magistrates’ Court

North East

• Berwick-upon-Tweed Magistrates’ Court
• Beverley Magistrates’ Court
• Bridlington Magistrates’ Court
• Durham Crown Court
• Gateshead Magistrates’ Court
• Grimsby Combined Court (Crown)
• Grimsby Magistrates’ Court
• Hull and Holderness Magistrates’ Court
• Kingston Upon Hull Crown Court
• Mid and South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court
• Newcastle Crown Court
• Newcastle Magistrates’ Court
• Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court
• North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court
• Peterlee Magistrates’ Court
• South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court
• Sunderland Magistrates’ Court
• Teesside Crown Court
• Teesside Magistrates’ Court

North West

• Barrow-in-Furness (South Lakeland) Magistrates’ Court
• Carlisle Crown Court
• Carlisle (North Cumbria) Magistrates’ Court
• Chester Crown Court
• Chester Magistrates’ Court
• Crewe Magistrates’ Court
• Liverpool Crown Court
• Liverpool & Knowsley Magistrates’ Court
• Sefton Magistrates’ Court
• Warrington Magistrates’ Court
• West Cumbria (Workington) Magistrates’ Court
• Wirral Magistrates’ Court

South East

• Amersham Crown Court
• Aylesbury Crown Court
• Brighton Magistrates’ Court
• Cambridge Crown Court
• Cambridge Magistrates’ Court
• Crawley Magistrates’ Court
• East Berkshire (Slough) Magistrates’ Court
• Guildford Crown Court
• Guildford Magistrates’ Court
• Hastings Magistrates’ Court
• Hatfield Magistrates’ Court
• High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court
• Horsham Magistrates’ Court
• Huntingdon Crown Court
• Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court
• Lewes Crown Court
• Luton Crown Court (including Knights’ Chamber Nightingale Court)
• Luton Magistrates’ Court
• Milton Keynes Magistrates’ Court
• Oxford Crown Court
• Oxford Magistrates’ Court
• Peterborough Crown Court
• Peterborough Magistrates’ Court
• Reading Crown Court
• Reading Magistrates’ Court
• Staines Magistrates’ Court
• St Albans Crown Court
• St Albans Magistrates’ Court
• Stevenage Magistrates’ Court
• Worthing Magistrates’ Court

South West

• Aldershot Magistrates’ Court
• Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court
• Bath Law Courts (Magistrates’ Court)
• Bristol Crown Court
• Bristol Magistrates’ Court
• Isle of Wight Magistrates’ Court
• Newport (Isle of Wight) Crown Court
• North Somerset Law Courts (Magistrates’ Court)
• Portsmouth Crown Court
• Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court
• Southampton Crown Court
• Southampton Magistrates’ Court
• Taunton Crown Court
• Taunton Magistrates’ Court
• Winchester Crown Court
• Yeovil Magistrates’ Court

Wales

• Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court
• Caernarfon Crown Court
• Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court
• Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court
• Llandudno Magistrates’ Court
• Llanelli Law Courts (Magistrates’ Court)
• Mold Crown Court
• Mold Magistrates’ Court
• Swansea Crown Court
• Welshpool Magistrates’ Court
• Wrexham Magistrates’ Court

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