"HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has completed the transfer of the applications from datacenters in Park Royal, West London, and Swindon. They used around 2,500 pieces of hardware. Pete Harrison, HMCTS's program director for decommissioning and legacy risk mitigation, said: "Many of these were so old that finding replacement parts was nearly impossible... This created a fragile environment with single points of failure that could disrupt access to essential court services.""
"Harrison says the work to migrate the 37 applications, which started in 2020, involved scrapping some and upgrading others while shifting them to cloud platforms. The latter includes three jury management tools merged into one called Juror Digital and a complex project to establish a new digital recording system for the Crown Court. HMCTS has moved others to "a specially created temporary hosting facility" where they can run until they are replaced or retired."
HM Courts and Tribunals Service completed transfer of 37 applications from Park Royal and Swindon datacentres, using about 2,500 pieces of hardware. Many legacy systems were so old that replacement parts were nearly impossible to find, creating fragile single points of failure. Migration work begun in 2020 involved scrapping some applications, upgrading others, and moving many to cloud platforms, including merging three jury management tools into Juror Digital and building a new Crown Court digital recording system. Several applications now run in a temporary hosting facility until replacement or retirement, while data transfer tools are being built for the Common Platform and consultancy contracts and audit scrutiny have affected costs and timelines.
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