HMCTS Common Platform: participating criminal courts
HMCTSFind buildingsout wherewhen the Common Platform case management system is nowgoing live.live in a court.
Applies to England and Wales
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 youyou’re 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.
Schedule
These dates might change because of operational reasons, but courts will not go live with Common Platform isany nowearlier operationalthan atthe thesedates we’ve shown below.
We’ll update this page with the latest information on when courts inare ourgoing regions:live with Common Platform.
London
Week beginning 29 August 2022
Norfolk and Suffolk:
EalingGreat Yarmouth Magistrates’ CourtHarrowIpswich Crown CourtIsleworthIpswichCrownMagistrates’ CourtKingstonKing’s Lynn Crown CourtLavenderKing’sHillLynn Magistrates’ CourtUxbridgeNorwichMagistrates’Crown CourtWillesdenNorwich Magistrates’ CourtWimbledonMagistrates’Court
Midlands
Week beginning 5 September 2022
South Yorkshire:
BostonBarnsleyMagistrates’LawCourtCannockCourtsMagistrates’(Magistrates’CourtCourt)ChesterfieldDoncasterMagistrates’JusticeCourtDerbyCentreCrown(NorthCourtDerbyandMagistrates’CourtSouth)HerefordSheffieldMagistrates’Crown CourtKidderminsterSheffield Magistrates’ CourtLincoln
Week Crownbeginning Court
Lancashire:
Newcastle-under-LymeBlackburn Magistrates’ Court(NorthStaffordshireJusticeCentre)RedditchBlackpool Magistrates’ CourtShrewsburyBurnley Crown CourtStaffordBurnleyCrownMagistrates’ CourtStoke-on-TrentLancaster Crown CourtTelfordLancaster Magistrates’ CourtWorcesterPreston Crown Court (and Sessions House)WorcesterPreston Magistrates’ Court
NorthWeek East
beginning 26 September 2022
Berwick-upon-TweedWiltshire
Magistrates’andCourtDorset:
BeverleyBournemouthMagistrates’Crown CourtBridlingtonPoole Magistrates’ CourtDurhamSalisbury Crown CourtGatesheadSalisbury Magistrates’ CourtGrimsbySwindonCombinedCrown Court(Crown)GrimsbySwindon Magistrates’ CourtHullWeymouthandHoldernessKingston- Basildon Crown Court
MidBasildonandSouthEastNorthumberlandNewcastleChelmsford Crown CourtNewcastleChelmsford Magistrates’ CourtNewtonColchesterAycliffeNorthSouthendTynesidePeterleeLeicesterMagistrates’andCourtNorthamptonshire:SouthLeicesterTynesideCrown Court- Leicester Magistrates’ Court
SunderlandLoughborough Magistrates’ CourtTeessideNorthampton Crown CourtTeessideNorthampton Magistrates’ Court- Wellingborough Magistrates’ Court
Barrow-in-FurnessHarrogate(SouthLakeland)CarlisleScarboroughCrownJusticeCourtCentreCarlisleSkipton(NorthCumbria)ChesterYork Crown CourtChesterYork Magistrates’ CourtCreweLiverpoolCoventry Crown CourtLiverpoolCoventry&KnowsleySeftonDudley Magistrates’ CourtWarringtonNuneaton Magistrates’ CourtWestWalsallCumbria(Workington)WirralWarwickMagistrates’Crown CourtAmershamWarwickCrownMagistrates’ CourtAylesburyWolverhampton Crown CourtBrightonWolverhampton Magistrates’ CourtCambridgeBirmingham Crown CourtCambridgeMagistrates’(including Birmingham Crown Court Annex)CrawleyBirmingham Magistrates’ CourtEastGuildfordCanterbury Crown CourtGuildfordCanterbury Magistrates’ CourtHastingsFolkestone Magistrates’ CourtHatfieldMaidstoneMagistrates’Crown CourtHighMaidstoneWycombeHorshamMargate Magistrates’ CourtHuntingdonMedwayCrownMagistrates’ CourtHuntingdonSevenoaks Magistrates’ CourtLewesLuton7CrownNovemberCourt2022West
(includingKnights’ChamberNightingaleCourt)Yorkshire:
LutonBradfordMagistrates’&CourtMiltonKeighleyKeynesOxfordBradford Crown CourtOxfordKirklees (Huddersfield) Magistrates’ CourtPeterboroughLeeds Crown CourtPeterboroughLeeds Magistrates’ CourtReadingReadingBexley Magistrates’ CourtStainesBromley Magistrates’ CourtStCroydonAlbansStCroydonAlbansStevenageInnerMagistrates’London Crown CourtWorthingWoolwichMagistrates’Crown CourtAldershotCentralMagistrates’Criminal CourtBasingstokeCity of London Magistrates’ CourtBathCityLawofCourtsWestminster(Magistrates’Court)BristolCrownCourtBristolIsleHighburyofCornerWightCourtCourtsNewportSouthwark(IsleofWight)NorthPortsmouthBarnstapleCrownMagistrates’ CourtPortsmouthBodmin Magistrates’ CourtSouthamptonExeter Crown CourtSouthamptonExeter Magistrates’ CourtTauntonNewton Abbott Magistrates’ Court- Plymouth Crown Court
TauntonPlymouth Magistrates’ CourtWinchesterTruro Crown CourtYeovilTruro Magistrates’ CourtAberystwythCheltenham Magistrates’ CourtCaernarfonGloucester Crown CourtCaernarfonHaverfordwestBarkingside Magistrates’ CourtLlandudnoRomford Magistrates’ CourtLlanelliSnaresbrookLawCourts(Magistrates’Court)MoldMoldStratford Magistrates’ CourtSwanseaThamesCrownCourtWelshpoolWrexhamWoodMagistrates’Green Crown Court
Week Uponbeginning Hull3 October 2022
Essex:
Week beginning 17 October 2022
North WestYorkshire:
Week Magistrates’beginning Court24 October 2022
West Midlands and Warwickshire:
South East
Week Berkshirebeginning (Slough)31 Magistrates’October Court2022
Kent:
Week Crownbeginning Court
Week Crownbeginning Court5 December 2022
Week beginning London:
SouthWeek West
beginning 9 January 2023
London:
Week Somersetbeginning Law23 CourtsJanuary (Magistrates’2023
Devon Court)and Cornwall:
Wales
Week beginning 30 January 2023
Gloucestershire:
Week Magistrates’beginning Court6 February 2023
London:
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Amended guidance so users can find out when a court is going live with Common Platform.
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Added 12 new courts to the south east list
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Additional courts in the North-east at Beverley, Bridlington, Grimsby and Hull added.
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New courts added in North-east and North-west.
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Courts in London and south-east added.
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Hereford Crown temporarily closed for building works. Courts in Boston, Lincoln, Amersham, Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes added.
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Additional venues in North-west, South-east and South-west added.
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Additonal courts in Wales added.
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Teesside courts added
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Additional courts added in the South-east.
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New venues added at Chester and Crewe.
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10 courts added to list.
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New sites gone live.
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New common platform adopter sites added.
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7 new sites added.
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Update history
2023-06-21 12:52
A new section has been added in, between week beginning 19 June and week beginning 17 July.
2023-06-01 13:40
Updated list of courts.
2023-05-17 12:59
Added courts due to go live soon.
2023-04-24 16:32
Removed courts that have already gone live with Common Platform.
2023-03-27 09:37
Updated page with courts due to go live soon.
2023-03-16 12:40
Removed list of courts due to go live with Common Platform because of scheduling changes. We’ll update the page when more dates are confirmed.
2023-02-23 12:01
Removed rescheduled courts from list of courts to go live soon.
2023-02-01 15:15
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live
2023-01-16 16:30
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live
2022-12-05 14:46
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live
2022-11-11 15:42
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live
2022-11-03 10:29
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live
2022-10-17 16:03
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live.
2022-10-14 08:29
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live.
2022-10-05 15:34
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live.
2022-08-24 15:12
Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live.
2022-08-22 17:27
Amended guidance so users can find out when a court is going live with Common Platform.
2022-05-23 14:28
Added 12 new courts to the south east list