The plan to introduce a 'virtual court' was introduced by Jack Straw as a pilot scheme to cut down on the government's cost. If you look at this page, you will notice that there is some sense in him introducing this 'virtual court'.
What happened is that when a defendant is being held up in the police station lockup for a minor offence e.g. being drunken and disorderly or even minor traffice offences, the defendant will be feed through a secured video link via conferencing to the magistrates court.The defendant could be charged within hours of arrest and therefore save the court's time and also the police's valuable resources.
I have no objections into using video link to give evidence in court as to protect the identity of the witness but I don't quite agree with this approach by the Justice Minister.
I do feel that by doing so, it defeats the purpose of having the defendant's case properly tried in court. Where is justice when you needed one? To me, the sole purpose to introduce virtual courts is to save the government's money, not quite for the defendant to have a fair trial.
Any ideas?
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I'm not clear on this. What are the possible ways in which justice can be tempered with?
I am just not convinced that there will be no one temper with the connection. You do know that no one escapes from the internet. Once they know your IP address, you can't hide.
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