Staff claim a new IT system being rolled out in courts in England and Wales is beset with faults.
An IT system is causing key information about court cases in England and Wales to change or disappear and is putting justice at risk, the BBC has been told.
The new system, which started going live in 2020 and has a £300m budget, is being used in 136 courts in England and Wales - equivalent to 60% of the total - with the rest due to adopt it by early next year.James is a magistrates' court legal adviser - a lawyer whose job it is to provide legal advice to lay magistrates and manage proceedings in the court.
"That's scary because this person wouldn't have been disqualified, they'd have been on the road - a threat to others." The PCS union, which represents court staff, claims repeated warnings about faults have been ignored by the courts service - which prompted legal advisors and court associates in the magistrates' court to vote to take strike action over the system starting on 10 September.James is among those who said he has warned the court service about faults with Common Platform.
"Everybody was telling sub-postmasters it was their fault and only many years later did the Post Office admit actually the software was in error", he said. "It has already successfully managed over 158,000 criminal cases and there is no evidence that Common Platform is compromising justice or putting parties at risk.
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