Guidance

HMCTS Common Platform: participating criminal courts

Find out when the Common Platform case management system is going live in a court.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Published
30 March 2021
Last updated
524 OctoberAugust 2022 — See all updates

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 you’re 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 any earlier than the dates we’ve shown below.

We’ll update this page with the latest information on when courts are going live with Common Platform.

Week beginning 29 August 2022

Norfolk and Suffolk:

  • Great Yarmouth Magistrates’ Court
  • Ipswich Crown Court
  • Ipswich Magistrates’ Court
  • King’s Lynn Crown Court
  • King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court
  • Norwich Crown Court
  • Norwich Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 19 September 2022

Lancashire:

  • Blackburn Magistrates’ Court
  • Blackpool Magistrates’ Court
  • Burnley Crown Court
  • Burnley Magistrates’ Court
  • Lancaster Crown Court
  • Lancaster Magistrates’ Court
  • Preston Crown Court (and Sessions House)
  • Preston Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 26 September 2022

South Yorkshire:

  • Barnsley Law Courts (Magistrates’ Court)
  • Doncaster Justice Centre (North and South)
  • Sheffield Crown Court
  • Sheffield Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 3 October 2022

Essex:

  • Basildon Crown Court
  • Basildon Magistrates’ Court
  • Chelmsford Crown Court
  • Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court
  • Colchester Magistrates’ Court
  • Southend Magistrates’ Court
  • Leicester and Northamptonshire:
  • Leicester Crown Court
  • Leicester Magistrates’ Court
  • Loughborough Magistrates’ Court
  • Northampton Crown Court
  • Northampton Magistrates’ Court
  • Wellingborough Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 10 October 2022

Dorset

  • Bournemouth Crown Court
  • Poole Magistrates’ Court
  • Weymouth Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 17 October 2022

North Yorkshire:

  • Harrogate Magistrates’ Court
  • Scarborough Justice Centre
  • Skipton Magistrates’ Court
  • York Crown Court
  • York Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 24 October 2022

West Midlands and Warwickshire:

  • Coventry Crown Court
  • Coventry Magistrates’ Court
  • Dudley Magistrates’ Court
  • Nuneaton Magistrates’ Court
  • Walsall Magistrates’ Court
  • Warwick Crown Court
  • Warwick Magistrates’ Court
  • Wolverhampton Crown Court
  • Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court
  • Birmingham Crown Court (including Birmingham Crown Court Annex)
  • Birmingham Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 31 October 2022

Kent:

  • Canterbury Crown Court
  • Canterbury Magistrates’ Court
  • Folkestone Magistrates’ Court
  • Maidstone Crown Court
  • Maidstone Magistrates’ Court
  • Margate Magistrates’ Court
  • Medway Magistrates’ Court
  • Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 7 November 2022

West Yorkshire:

  • Bradford & Keighley Magistrates’ Court
  • Bradford Crown Court
  • Kirklees (Huddersfield) Magistrates’ Court
  • Leeds Crown Court
  • Leeds Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 5 December 2022

Week beginning London:

  • Bexley Magistrates’ Court
  • Bromley Magistrates’ Court
  • Croydon Crown Court
  • Croydon Magistrates’ Court
  • Inner London Crown Court
  • Woolwich Crown Court

Week beginning 9 January 2023

London:

  • Central Criminal Court
  • City of London Magistrates’ Court
  • City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court
  • Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Courts
  • Southwark Crown Court
  • Wood Green Crown Court

Week beginning 23 January 2023

Devon and Cornwall:

  • Barnstaple Magistrates’ Court
  • Bodmin Magistrates’ Court
  • Exeter Crown Court
  • Exeter Magistrates’ Court
  • Newton Abbott Magistrates’ Court
  • Plymouth Crown Court
  • Plymouth Magistrates’ Court
  • Truro Crown Court
  • Truro Magistrates’ Court

Week beginning 30 January 2023

Gloucestershire:

  • Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court
  • Gloucester Crown Court

Week beginning 6 February 2023

London:

  • Barkingside Magistrates’ Court
  • Romford Magistrates’ Court
  • Snaresbrook Crown Court
  • Stratford Magistrates’ Court
  • Thames Magistrates’ Court

See if a court is already live with Common Platform on our Find a court or tribunal service.

Published 30 March 2021
Last updated 524 OctoberAugust 2022 + show all updates

  1. Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live.

  2. Updated schedule for when courts are due to go live.

  3. Amended guidance so users can find out when a court is going live with Common Platform.

  4. Added 12 new courts to the south east list

  5. Additional courts in the North-east at Beverley, Bridlington, Grimsby and Hull added.

  6. New courts added in North-east and North-west.

  7. Courts in London and south-east added.

  8. Hereford Crown temporarily closed for building works. Courts in Boston, Lincoln, Amersham, Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes added.

  9. Additional venues in North-west, South-east and South-west added.

  10. Additonal courts in Wales added.

  11. Teesside courts added

  12. Additional courts added in the South-east.

  13. New venues added at Chester and Crewe.

  14. 10 courts added to list.

  15. New sites gone live.

  16. New common platform adopter sites added.

  17. 7 new sites added.

  18. First published.