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Guidance: HMCTS Common Platform: participating criminal courts

Hm Courts Tribunals Service

August 22
16:27 2022

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 youre 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 weve shown below.

Well 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
  • Kings Lynn Crown Court
  • Kings Lynn Magistrates Court
  • Norwich Crown Court
  • Norwich Magistrates Court

Week beginning 5 September 2022

South Yorkshire:

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

Wiltshire and Dorset:

  • Bournemouth Crown Court
  • Poole Magistrates Court
  • Salisbury Crown Court
  • Salisbury Magistrates Court
  • Swindon Crown Court
  • Swindon Magistrates Court
  • Weymouth 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 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

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
  • Wood Green Crown 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 22 August 2022 +show all updates
  1. Amended guidance so users can find out when a court is going live with Common Platform.

  2. Added 12 new courts to the south east list

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

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

  5. Courts in London and south-east added.

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

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

  8. Additonal courts in Wales added.

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