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MoJ confirms pilot for virtual remand hearings
Defendants will attend a first hearing by video link from a police custody suite under a £17.5m programme, tested by at least four forces. Custody and court workflows both change with it.
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The Folio · No. 47Wednesday 21 October 2026Jess Entwistle
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Repeat perpetrators linked to quarter of VAWG offences
The National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection calls its new assessment the most comprehensive picture yet of the threat facing women and girls.
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Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers
One London zone lost power and Google’s single UK region left nowhere to fail over. Most services were back by late afternoon, but the courts stayed down.
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National Data Library grows to 80 collections and 46,000 datasets
Most of the research facility’s holdings are already public, and the team says significant work has gone into cataloguing and search.
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New search tool speeds up probation staff information discovery
The Delius team and technical architects built a hybrid search experience for probation staff, the sort of unglamorous fix that gives hours back.
