Whether or not your landlord can increase your rent all depends on your tenancy agreement - and more specifically, if it states how exactly long you are staying in the property.

If your tenancy agreement states how long you are staying in the property…

If your tenancy agreement states how long you are staying in the property, then you have what is known as a ‘fixed-term tenancy’- and your landlord cannot increase your rent for this fixed period of time, unless you agree. If you don’t agree, your rent may only be increased after the end of the period.

This is because, whether you rented a flat for two years or a holiday home for two weeks, your rent is fixed in your tenancy agreement from the moment you move in to the moment your tenancy agreement ends. To change this agreement, your landlord requires your consent.

When can your landlord increase the rent during a fixed-term tenancy?

There is an important exception here, though. If there’s a clause in your tenancy agreement which sets out how, when and by how much your landlord will increase your rent, then your landlord is still allowed to increase your rent during your fixed period of tenancy.

If your tenancy agreement does not state how long you are staying in the property…

If your tenancy agreement does not state how long you are staying in the property, then you have what is called a ‘statutory tenancy’ - which means that your landlord can increase your rent.

However, landlords cannot just increase your rent whenever and however they want; there are important rules that they must strictly follow. As explained on the 

, “your landlord cannot normally increase the rent more than once a year without your agreement.”

Your landlord always needs your permission to increase the rent

Furthermore, for any tenancy, “your landlord must get your permission if they want to increase the rent by more than previously agreed”. When any rent increase is made, it must be “fair and realistic” - and this means it has to be in line with average local rents. These rules protect you from your landlord unfairly increasing your rent.

Can My Landlord Increase My Rent?

Good advice is expensive, a Swiss saying goes. That is commonly thought to be true for legal advice in particular. People are accordingly reluctant to call up a lawyer for legal advice when facing problems. CourtCorrect and the Swiss insurance company AXA-ARAG want to change that  by showing that legal advice can be easy, affordable and digital.

To that end, the two partners have launched a new offering for free legal advice for everyone in Switzerland. It will be provided entirely online through CourtCorrect’s established online legal system platform. Processing cases through a single, centralised platform as well as the use of AI will significantly reduce the cost of legal services, which has the potential to transform the legal market in Switzerland and make it more accessible.

Clients can describe and submit their cases through 

. AXA-ARAG’s legal experts will then provide an assessment of the legal situation and recommend steps that will help customers to solve their problem.

All legal topics will be covered from housing and property to  family and employment law. Replies will only take two business days and can be provided via email or phone, tailored to the preferences of the client. After that, customers can purchase further legal services to have their problems solved directly on the platform – for a fixed price of CHF 69.

‘Our goal with this new offering is to improve access to justice, remove barriers and get closer to our customers’, says Jürg Schneider, the CEO of AXA-ARAG. The pilot project will run until June 2022. The companies will use the time to collect customer feedback and bring the platform to perfection as they are considering to turn it into a permanent offering.

Project leaders are aiming to also use AI in the course of the pilot but regardless of that all processes are already fully digitised. This makes it easy for customers to solve their legal problems almost ‘from the couch’ through their smartphone. The basic idea was inspired by similar projects conducted by CourtCorrect in the UK, where they had been successfully offering free legal advice for a while. Consequently, CourtCorrect is responsible for all technological aspects of the project including the digital platform. 

CourtCorrect Launches Digital Legal Advice Project With AXA-ARAG In Switzerland

CourtCorrect and the DIFC Courts have successfully completed a joint project to improve the courts’ technology for claimants. A CourtCorrect team of designers and legal experts has been deployed to Dubai for one month to prototype new procedures and digital tools in cooperation with the leaders of the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) and the DIFC Courts itself.

The DFF is aiming to develop the technology that should help make Dubai one of the leading cities worldwide through developments in all areas of public life, including justice. The DFF’s 2022 start-up accelerator programme challenged companies to build user-friendly court technology for one of the most distinguished international courts, the DIFC Courts.

Selected for a competitive start-up accelerator

CourtCorrect’s pitch was shortlisted among more than 80 applicants. After an additional round of pitches, the company furthermore made it to the final round of two in Dubai, where they worked on the ground to develop their pitch into a prototype.

“We’re very proud to have got the chance to work with DIFC Courts, one of the major international financial courts,” Faidh Feisal, Head of Product at CourtCorrect, says.

“My team have done a fantastic job working with the client in Dubai to produce a prototype that will improve legal services for claimants specifically with smaller claims, who are the people that CourtCorrect wants to help.”

Technology to make international trade fairer

The DIFC is a special economic zone with its own jurisdiction as distinct from Dubai’s legal foundation. It is open to trade from around the world. Its courts are adjudicating disputes based on civil and commercial laws oriented towards English common law and interpreted by international common law judges. Among their clients are many SMEs trading with international partners through Dubai. CourtCorrect’s prototype will help businesses with insufficient legal expertise and means to argue their case when they are facing legal problems around the DIFC. By making the DIFC’s dispute resolution processes easier to handle, CourtCorrect and the courts are hoping to contribute to a fair international trade environment that allows access to justice to all participants regardless of size and resources.

Ludwig Bull, CEO of CourtCorrect says: “It’s a great sign that our user-friendly, accessible technology is now starting to leave a mark at courts around the world.”

“It shows that access to justice is a universal concern that has now reached the highest ranks of the international legal system, which blows the door wide open for CourtCorrect’s products.”

CourtCorrect Successfully Completes Start-Up Accelerator Project With DIFC Courts And Dubai Future Foundation

CourtCorrect, the London tech start-up founded by Ludwig Bull, 

, has launched the world’s first largely automated, AI-powered online legal system.

The launch coincides with the announcement that the company raised £2m in seed funding.

“Many people and businesses do not access the legal system because it is complicated and expensive”, says Mr Bull. “Our platform is an alternative to the court system where you simply submit your case and our automatic resolution process will take care of it for free. It loosely follows the steps, from negotiation to resolution, that would be taken in the real world – except it’s simple, hands-off and risk-free.”

Access to justice for everyone thanks to AI

In order to make this process as seamless as possible, CourtCorrect directly connects and integrates all other legal actors too: legal service providers, courts and claims handlers. This centralisation of the entire legal system in a single platform has the potential to make dispute resolution and claims handling cheaper, faster and more accessible.

But that’s not all. The dynamic heart of the platform is CourtCorrect’s groundbreaking legal AI. It provides law firms, insurers, courts and claim handlers with high-quality legal analysis of incoming cases. Combined with automation tools and easy communication and file-sharing solutions, the platform reduces the case management to just a few clicks. With the accuracy and speed of casework thus pushed to futuristic levels, firms and adjudicators can massively scale up their operations.

Unsurprisingly, take-up among corporate clients has been high. CourtCorrect has sales in the UK, Switzerland, Germany and Japan, partnering amongst others with the University of Cambridge.

Visionaries Club, Adecco CEO invest into CourtCorrect

The service is gaining traction. More than 1,000 cases have already been resolved on the platform. Now the company is pushing for its technology to break into the mainstream and conquer the entirety of the market. To reach this ambitious goal, CourtCorrect has raised £2m in funding in a round led by Ascension Ventures, with participation from Visionaries Club, 20VC, RLC Ventures and a group of angels, including the current CEO of Fortune 500 Company Adecco.

Mr Bull says: “We’re over the moon to have these distinguished partners on board. Their expertise and experience in the area of funding start-ups will be crucial to growing CourtCorrect into a household name and a catalyst for change.“

CourtCorrect Raises Seed Funding And Launches Online Legal System

Since Brexit, immigration rules have changed, especially for EU citizens residing in the United Kingdom. If you are one of them, you probably have many questions regarding your new status and need of a visa: what kind of visa do I need? I did not apply within the deadline, what should I do? What do I need to apply? How long is my visa valid and what happens after? Keep reading to find out all the answers you need.

As a quick reminder, Brexit was decided in 2016, when 52% of Britons voted to 'leave' the EU. Then Britain started negotiations with the European Union, which led to the creation of an official Withdrawal agreement, regulating the relationship between the two parties after the exit. After many extended periods, the United Kingdom finally officially left the EU on January 31st, 2020, three and a half years and three Prime Ministers on from the actual referendum.

What visa do I need as an EU citizen in the UK?

If you are an EU citizen and moved to the UK before January 1st, 2021, you had until June 30th, 2021 to apply for either the pre-settled status (if you had been living in the UK for less than five years), which gives you the right to live, study, and work in the United Kingdom for another five years, or the settled status (if you had been living in the UK for over five years), which amounts to an official residence permit. 

Those programmes were created specifically after Brexit for EU citizens residing in the United Kingdom, and membership is the only thing you need to live a normal life in the UK. Application is free on the government website - be careful, as there are a lot of fraudulent website that pretend to offer the same but are actually run as a scam. 

This membership that you can prove via a digital certificate and your national identity card will be enough to cross the UK border, and you will not need a passport. Though, it is recommended that you have one as ID cards may sometimes lead to delays and additional checks at the border.

What if I'm an EU citizen who moved to the UK after 1 January 2021?

If you are an EU citizen who first moved to the UK after January 1st, 2021, you are not eligible for pre-settled or settled status (unless you have extenuating circumstances; see below). The type of visa you'll need will depend on your nationality, reason for coming to the United Kingdom, and how long you are planning on staying in the country. Click 

 to see what kind of visa you need to apply for. Be aware that these visa are no longer free, and you will not necessarily receive British citizenship, no matter how long you plan to stay in the UK.

What to do if you didn't apply within the deadline for pre-settled or settled status?

If you first came to the UK before January 1st, 2021 but did not apply to the EU settlement scheme, you will need to apply for one of the new visas (click 

 to see which one you need to apply for). However, there are two instances where you may still be able to qualify for the pre settled status.

In the first scenario, the June 30th, 2021 deadline does not apply to you because you belong to one of the categories listed 

In the second scenario, the deadline did apply to you but you were unable to apply due to one of 

 (note that this is a non-exhaustive list). In both cases, you may still be able to apply to the EU settlement scheme; you will need to provide evidence to support your reason(s) for missing the deadline. 

 to see what documents are accepted as proof (be careful, as these will differ based on your grounds).

What do I need to apply for pre-settled status?

If you are still allowed to apply to the pre settled status, in addition to proof of why you did not meet the deadline, you will also need to provide the following documents: 

If you are applying for a different visa, all the necessary documents will be

 listed under the information page for said visa on the UK government website.

How long is my UK visa valid and what happens after that?

If you have pre-settled status, it will be valid for five years, including the time you already spent in the UK. 

If you wish to stay in the UK for a longer period, you will need to apply for settled status (which gives you the same rights as the pre-settled status) before the end of said five years. This will allow you to stay in the United Kingdom indefinitely – provided you don't leave the UK for longer than five years. 

After one year, you will be eligible for British citizenship. 

If you had been living in the UK for over five years, and hence directly benefited from the settled status, you will be eligible for British citizenship after a year as well.

What are the visa requirements for EU citizens living and working in the UK?

Access to Justice is in a massive crisis today. If it weren’t already obvious, 

. But the current crisis really starts with the people who justice was made to protect – who feel less protected than ever.

Most people don’t think the justice system is easy to use. This perception of high barriers, complex processes and spiralling costs puts people off from using legal services, even if the perception does not 

In a landmark study produced by the law firm Hodge Jones & Allen in 2015, over 1,000 people were interviewed in a representative survey which concluded that:

The justice system’s bad reputation harms the use of accessible services

These figures illustrate that overall, perceptions of the justice system are poor and expectations are low. As a result, people who may benefit from using the system, don’t, as they expect that the available services won’t be able to meet their expectations.

This deep-rooted perception, even though accurate with respect to many services offered by the justice system, creates a general hesitation amongst the public to use the justice system – even when the specific service that could solve their problem may be relatively affordable and comparatively easy to use.

Looking for legal advice online? Few seem to find what they’re looking for

This general perception of the justice system combined with the lack of availability of services for many types of problems leads to a dramatic “drop-off” effect between the amount of people searching for legal advice and the amount of people who actually receive a service.

The number of people searching for legal advice online is massive.

Citizens Advice Bureau, an organisation hosting a range of content on its website to help people understand their rights in the UK, logs 40 million website visits a year. Google Trends data for multiple topics shows that in the UK, searches for legal advice and related topics is often on par with or even higher than searches for financial advice or related services.

You would imagine that this huge appetite for legal advice translates to a huge amount of legal services being consumed. While in some areas, the number of claims being issued is significant, as for example in country court claims, where roughly 1.6 million claims are issued every year. In other areas, the numbers dwindle. The Employment Tribunal only logged roughly 117,000 cases in the 2020/2021 period, equalling to a reduction in the total number of claims in the past 10 years by 45.93%. 

Bad experience with lawyers and legal services

For those that, despite poor perceptions, do use services of the justice system, the experiences they have are often poor. Reviewing TrustPilot scores of some of the services and schemes set up by the government to improve accessibility, a worrying trend quickly becomes clear: people do not trust these service providers and the experiences they have when using their services are usually bad.

“I'd been better off with some lads and a sledgehammer”

For example, the Money Claim Online Service launched by HM Courts & Tribunals as a “convenient and secure way of making or responding to a money claim on the internet”, has a TrusPilot score of 1.4, which corresponds to the rating “bad”. One reviewer went so far as to note that “I genuinely feel I'd been better off just going round with some lads and a sledgehammer to get what I'm rightly owed.” This review demonstrates just how disappointed people are with the services provided to them by the government and the dangerous consequences a justice system that doesn’t work for everyone can produce.

Similarly, Acas, which offers mandatory mediation and conciliation before allowing people claiming against their employers to proceed to the Employment Tribunal, has a TrustPilot score of 2.0. Reviewers commonly complain about bureaucracy, lack of empathy and even that the staff are biased against claimants. The Employment Tribunal itself also has a TrustPilot score of 1.9, with reviewers complaining about biased judges and incompetent staff.

Finally, even many of the Ombudsmen, set up by the government to offer a faster and more user-friendly way to get justice in smaller cases, suffer from low reputation. The Financial Ombudsman Service has a TrustPilot rating of 1.4, the Housing Ombudsman has a rating of 1.5 and the OIA for Higher Adjudication has a rating of 1.6. The list goes on and on.

These experiences show that many of the services set up by the government to offer speedy, user-friendly justice, end up alienating and disappointing citizens. Such real-world outcomes will only put off potential claimants with valid claims further.

Time for change for the sake of democracy and equality

Access to justice needs to change. Poor perceptions, combined with low uptake of solutions and disappointing real-world outcomes paint a gloomy picture of our justice system.

Being able to understand and take action on our rights is one of the basic principles of democracy and equality before the law.

Unless we bring about a fairer justice system fast, we risk permanently damaging the relationship between citizens and the rule of law.

Why Access to Justice is in Crisis Today

There has never been a clear definition of what an 

 is for the world at large, simply because it didn’t exist until it was invented by CourtCorrect just now!

But what it means is simply: you, as a person are able to access all of the resources in the legal system, engage with all participants, lawyers, courts and ombudsman services, online and on-the-go, even from your phone. The result: all legal problems can be solved in an easy, affordable, user-friendly way.

An example: let’s say you have a problem in your life. A problem that has a legal dimension: whether it’s a problem with your employer, an issue with your apartment of house, a conflict with a company or with the government. Whatever it is – it should be easy for you to take action on that problem and to get justice.

Most of the time, we overlook these issues and just ‘let them go’ because legal services are too complicated and too expensive to pursue. It’s easier to just accept what has happened and suck it up.

But resolving legal problems shouldn’t be so complicated that you spend hours trying to find the right service or tons of money just to get a simple piece of legal advice.

As easy as picking up your phone and describing in a few words what your issue or problem is; maybe even taking some photos or uploading some evidence to back you up.

You then just hit send and it’s entered the legal system where your problem can be resolved and you can get justice – that’s it!

And this is exactly what CourtCorrect is building; a digital platform where all participants in the legal market, courts, companies, private people, law firms can process and resolve legal cases by collaborating on one website – without ever leaving it!

Yes, you heard me right, you can access the entire legal system through your computer, phone or tablet, whatever you please, right from that comfortable couch in your living room – or in your office, of course!

This of course is completely different to how the legal system currently works; too complex to understand and too expensive to use, which in turn excludes a lot of people from fighting for and using the rights they have.

How does the Online Legal System help your law firm or company?

Now, what if you’re a company or a law firm that needs to resolve legal disputes for clients and complaints of consumers?

There are tools that are already available to these law firms and companies but there isn’t really that one tool that:

Until now! The online legal system platform helps with providing all this in a scalable way enriched by AI that helps companies and law firms with case handling.

Customers who have a claim or legal case can simply submit all the information through CourtCorrect where your company will receive it and you can resolve it. And if you ever need a lawyer for complex cases, simply pass on the case inside the platform to an integrated lawyer! And if you can’t agree with the customer and the case goes to dispute resolution, there’s no need to prepare evidence and arguments – simply share the case file and adjudicators will have access to everything needed and they can just review and decide the matter in the platform – saving time, money and resources. Everything in one case file; all in one platform!

No more extra hours and weekend work for your claims team; with CourtCorrect, they manage claims with just a few clicks, faster than ever!

What is the advantage of an Online Legal System?

The goal of all this is not only to provide affordable legal services that are easier and more effective in resolving legal conflicts but also to increase access to justice.

It also helps with the centralisation of resources.

Whenever someone has a legal issue, they usually quickly turn to Google to get answers or advice for their problems. A lot of these resources aren’t on Google or are very hard to find. For example, if you didn’t know that there was an ombudsman for issues relating to Higher Education, you would never look for it on Google and will never find it! CourtCorrect informs about and gives everyone access to those vital legal resources, strengthening people’s capacity to use their rights.

There’s also a whole lot of websites plainly giving you contacts of other legal services that you could contact for your problem.

What we need is a centralised platform which provides legal information, advice and support all via one great user experience and this is exactly CourtCorrect is currently building in different parts of the world.

On a whole, the Online Legal System is a vision for a better world with better access to justice where people’s problems can be solved fairly and effectively!

If you want to use the online legal system for your organisation, just get started for free! We will get in touch and help you set everything up and activate the pay product. If you would like more information first, just request a callback.

Plug in, connect yourself to the legal system from your office chair and help improve access to justice around the world a little bit more!

Is an Online Legal System the answer to improve Access to Justice?

There are three main categories into which we can divide those who can use CourtCorrect’s AI-powered product and who it would be beneficial for.

How does an AI-powered Legal Product work?

Most of the time legal services are provided via email, telephone and since the pandemic, slightly less common, but still in person. This is extremely time-consuming and inefficient and also leads to a lot of friction and miscommunication as there’s no central, digitally accessible marketplace for legal services.

Well, AI can automate all those time-consuming, inefficient, repetitive tasks. For example, once the AI has been trained to carry out process level tasks, it can carry out the duties of having the initial consultation with the user. Here, the AI will scan the submission to diagnose the issue of the user.

The AI can also take charge of asking for the required documents and then reviewing them which would otherwise be very time consuming to a person who would’ve had to go back and forth.

Once this initial bit has been completed, your staff members will take over to make the final calls and decisions by reviewing the case files that have been carefully put together by the AI.

Currently, CourtCorrect prominently uses AI in the case submission forms where AI has been trained to understand the answer of the customer is and accordingly choose the next question. CourtCorrect is also preparing an AI document check that provides a short summary of documents that are submitted to companies by clients. Our AI-powered product also provides you with a dashboard to track all of your legal cases and update you and your customers on their status.

What is the Advantage of using an AI-powered Legal Product?

Since by now you are aware about how CourtCorrect uses AI and Automation for onboarding your customers and reviewing documents, let’s look at the three main advantages of using artificial intelligence in your business.

Overall, AI makes it easier to submit and resolve cases transparently and efficiently which ultimately has huge potential to create access to justice and fundamentally change how we interact with the law, our rights and the legal system.

What makes CourtCorrect’s AI-powered Legal Product special?

One of the main things that you need to do as a start-up is to build a product that is scalable and can handle a lot of different customers and ideally a lot of different countries. That’s typically really hard for legal tech companies as every country has different laws and different legal systems. There are also different legal actors involved in the legal system: you’ve got law firms, insurance companies, private companies, courts, ombudsman services. And again all of them have slightly different requirements.

Thanks to our focus on AI that can be adapted to a lot of different contexts and countries, CourtCorrect has been a global company from day 1 and thinks like a global company. We work with companies, legal service providers and also with courts, from Asia to Europe to North America.

That shows that the CourtCorrect’s legal product is scalable not only for the entire legal system of one country but also around the world. And we want our product to address a global issue – enabling everyone to resolve legal issues in an efficient and fair way. So wherever you are around the world – our AI-powered legal product can help you!

If you want to use the online legal system for your organisation, just get started for free! We will get in touch and help you set everything up and activate the pay product. If you would like more information first, just request a callback. 

Would your company benefit from an AI operated Legal product?

To that end, the two partners have launched a new offering for free legal advice for everyone in Switzerland. It will be provided entirely online through CourtCorrect’s established online legal system platform. Processing cases through a single, centralised platform as well as the use of AI will significantly reduce the cost of legal services, which has the potential to transform the legal market in Switzerland and make it more accessible.\

Project leaders are aiming to also use AI in the course of the pilot but regardless of that all processes are already fully digitised. This makes it easy for customers to solve their legal problems almost ‘from the couch’ through their smartphone. The basic idea was inspired by similar projects conducted by CourtCorrect in the UK, where they had been successfully offering free legal advice for a while. Consequently, CourtCorrect responsible for all technological aspects of the project including the digital platform.

Die Vision ist klar: Künftig soll auch künstliche Intelligenz eingesetzt werden. Ein Chatbot soll die Rechtsfragen automatisiert beantworten. Schon jetzt ist der Digitalisierungsgrad durch die eingesetzte Plattform hoch, was es für Kunden einfach macht, Rechtsprobleme quasi “vom Sofa aus” mit dem Handy zu lösen. Das Modell wurde von ähnlichen Projekten des Londoner Start-Ups CourtCorrect inspiriert, das in Grossbritannien digitale Rechtsberatung zum Nulltarif erfolgreich anbietet. CourtCorrect stellt dementsprechend auch die selbstentwickelte Plattform und zeichnet für die weitere technologische Umsetzung des ambitionierten Projekts verantwortlich.

CourtCorrect launches digital legal advice project with AXA-ARAG in Switzerland

Even if you’ve ever had to navigate the lengthy and complex legal justice system in the UK, you may still be shocked to hear how many criminal law cases are waiting on a backlog. With over 58,000 outstanding cases awaiting trial in the Crown Court, of which over 5,800 represent victims of violent crime and sexual offences, another issue has come to head this week which is likely to bring further strain to the justice system. On Monday, June 20th, the members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) voted in an overwhelming majority in favour to pursue industrial action commencing next Monday, June 27th and Tuesday, June 28, increasing by one day each week until finally reaching a full five-day strike from Monday, July 18th to Friday, July 22.

Why are the barristers planning a walkout?

Came into fruition following frustration from CBA members over a diminishing legal aid budget which fell 43% since 2004-05. Barristers who work as legal aid lawyers receive their fees directly from the government legal aid system. Recent cuts have meant that their hourly fees have been reduced, and in some cases, fees have been placed as fixed rather than hourly despite barristers continuously working  80-hour weeks to prepare their cases.

Why is the criminal justice system in crisis?

According to the CBA, this lack of budgeting has driven many out of the profession, noting an 11% decline in junior barristers practising criminal law, as the average annual income after expenses is around £12,200 in the first three years of practice. It is not surprising that many who aspired to be criminal barristers are now seeking employment in other fields which offer more liveable wages.

What is surprising though is the lack of budgeting for legal aid. The battle for legal aid, a system which sits at the heart of access to justice, seems like one which shouldn’t have to be battled for at all. Overworked and underpaid barristers work tirelessly to provide legal services to those who need proper and fair representation, receiving little in return despite the justice system depending on their work.  It truly is a job of passion over profit, and it comes as no surprise that the vote turned out in favour of striking.   

What are the effects of this industrial action?

However, the effects of the industrial action go beyond applying pressure on the government to reallocate funding. Those who have been biding their time on the backlog will most likely face further delays stretching into years of waiting for their day in court. Victims of violent and sexual crimes already face the longest wait for prosecutions to be completed. Due to the nature of the crimes, and the long waiting periods for justice, many victims have already dropped out of their cases with no end in sight.

However, it is the belief of the members of the CBA, as 80% back some form of industrial action, that the only real way out of the justice system crisis was a drastic measure.

How did the CBA justify the barrister walkout?

Jo Sidhu QC and Kirsty Brimelow QC from the CBA said in a joint statement: “Without immediate action to halt the exodus of criminal barristers from our ranks, the record backlog that has crippled our courts will continue to inflict misery upon victims and defendants alike, and the public will be betrayed.”

What is the government doing to fix the backlog and justice system crisis?

In the hopes that the legal aid budget sees a reallocation of funding after the end of the strike in July, the Crown Courts in Newcastle, Leeds and London are now set to be upgraded with better technology to address the severe backlog of those awaiting violent crimes and sexual offences trails. The pilot is set to offer independent advisors on hand in courts to support victims. While this may be a small step in the right direction, unfortunately, the pilot won’t be operational until October of this year.

Truthfully, there must be other solutions which can be set into motion now which can offer an encompassing and efficient way out of this justice system crisis. Legal tech is no longer a figment of the future, it exists now, and it’s time the government starts making smarter investments in tech solutions for the betterment of the whole of the justice system.


How legal tech can help barristers and courts and fix the justice system

An innovative solution that is gaining notoriety among legal service providers and adjudicators is CourtCorrect’s no-code legal tech platform. It makes it possible for professional clients in the legal industry to receive their own bespoke legal tech software fitting to the exact challenges they’re facing, assembled from CourtCorrect’s product range of case processing tools.

In this instance, courts and Inns of Court could pick products fit to assist in the disproportionate backlog and limited availability of barristers, for example, automation tools. Just one such example is CourtCorrect’s AI document scan tool that translates complex legal documents into digital case files with concise summaries of the content within seconds. The use of tools like this would significantly reduce the hours spent by barristers and other legal administrative professions in preparing and managing a case.

CourtCorrect’s technology has already helped legal service providers service thousands of cases and is being piloted in courts in Germany. CourtCorrect would offer a flexible solution to help resolve the ongoing struggles of the justice system.

Justice system crisis peaks as barrister walkout could increase case backlog of over 50,000 cases

For a long time now, law firms and other service providers have had one major difficulty: too much time and effort goes into the initial stages of a legal case.

These initial stages are those that involve collecting and distributing the basic information from the clients. Requesting the right documents and pieces of information from the clients is one of the most vital steps. But also one that takes up a tremendous amount of time to carry out.

This is usually done through phone calls and going back and forth with emails after the client filled in the contact form. That’s not only tedious and takes too much effort. Often phone calls also come from a ‘No caller ID’ number, which means that the client will not be able to call back. The client has nothing they can refer to to track their case or even check if more information is required from them. This severely damages clients’ trust  in the law firm.

Sounds familiar? Then a user-friendly case management software could be for you!

A case management software is one that provides your company and your clients with a centralised location to submit, receive, store and track all the data of a case.

This includes all the basic information of the client as well as documents and other evidence they have provided. It also allows the client to track the progress of the case and includes the case notes that have been recorded over time.

What are the benefits of a case management software?

If your company is one that deals with a large number of clients – then most likely yes!As a business grows, it can be tough and almost inefficient to record all client data securely in one place. Accessing this information through emails and phone calls, and sometimes in person, is highly time-consuming for both parties.And, wouldn’t you want to make your company’s work to get easier and in-turn, more efficient?A lot of the time, law firms and other service providers shy away from using new tech solutions simply because of the initial pains of having to train and learn how they work. But once this stage is passed, the number of advantages that benefit both, the firms as well as the clients, are tenfold.

How does CourtCorrect’s legal case manager work?

Legal services should be user-friendly, scalable and everyone in our society should be able to access them – and that’s what CourtCorrect’s software is for. Easy to access for clients, easy to handle for lawyers, administrators and case managers.CourtCorrect is the best example of case management software that can help you make things easier. And unlike many of its competitors, it is not just serving a specific segment of the process. CourtCorrect provides an end-to-end solution from lead generation to case management!Let’s say you want to provide a legal service and you’re signing up clients for a class-action lawsuit against a fraudulent financial services company.First, you think what information you need from your clients.Then you set up a case tree with the questions you want to ask them.Publish – and you’re done!With CourtCorrect’s tailored digital marketing service package your customers will simply find you online. They are retained through clear and modern landing pages. And once they want to submit their case, they only need to follow the intelligent form. CourtCorrect’s AI directs them through the questions. No more calls and emailing back and forth to answer queries. Everything is easily understandable and designed in an accessible way.And in the end, you get everything you need, docs and information, in a neat, skimmable format in a digital case file that is automatically created and triaged to the right case manager.You’re going to sign up more clients with more accessible submission processes. And you get all the information you need with less work.

How do you get started with CourtCorrect’s case management system?

If you want to use CourtCorrect’s online legal system for your organisation, just get started for free! We will get in touch and help you set everything up and activate the pay product. If you would like more information first, just request a call-back. 

Is a case management software an all in one solution and do I need it?

CourtCorrect successfully completes start-up accelerator project with DIFC Courts and Dubai Future Foundation

CourtCorrect, the London tech start-up that has revolutionised legal services and access to justice, has announced that Ian Cohen, Director of The Cohen Consultancy, will join its advisory board. Mr Cohen brings a wealth of experience in the field of personal injury and medical negligence as well as access to justice more generally.

Mr Cohen says: 'I have been interested and actively engaged in access to justice for all my career. I was therefore immediately interested and excited when hearing about CourtCorrect’s project of making legal knowledge and services more accessible through tech and artificial intelligence.

'Through my many conversations with Ludwig Bull, the CEO, I was convinced that this project has the potential to transform the legal industry and I’m delighted to contribute in any way that I can .’

Mr Cohen has previously made a name for himself in the field of medical negligence. He became a law firm partner at the age of 26 and built up a successful niche law firms in Goodmans Law before selling it to Slater and Gordon Lawyers.

Mr Cohen has developed into one of the major British lawyers in his area with an extraordinary network reaching from Trust Mediation to the NHS Resolution, as well as all aspects of the supply chain in this sector. He is now passing on his sizeable inside knowledge advising medical negligence law firms and their supply chain partners through his own consultancy The Cohen Consultancy.

Chambers & Partners graded him as a Band 1 while calling him “[an] influential medical negligence lawyer … who is prominent in the industry.”

A catalyst for change in the legal industry

CourtCorrect’s mission to make the legal system more accessible and effective through innovative technology and processes seems like a natural fit with Mr Cohen’s specialisation. 

He brings significant experience with providing access to legal services for everyday people and with legal means, such as alternative dispute resolution through Trust Mediation. Those will be valuables assets for reaching the shared goal to enhance the company’s standing in the industry and get it on a path to stable growth.

CourtCorrect CEO Ludwig Bull says: “We’re over the moon to have Ian on board. His expertise and network in the area of funding justice will be crucial to growing CourtCorrect into a household name and a catalyst for change.“

Ian Cohen joins CourtCorrect advisory board

The Covid-19 pandemic saw a large number of companies and employers letting go of some of their employees and limiting their teams to only a few people. Wherever we looked, it was like a growing ‘trend’ for people to have lost their jobs.

The word ‘redundant’ was becoming omnipresent in every conversation and there was a certain sense of chaos because most people had absolutely no idea about what to do and what their rights were when it comes to losing their jobs. Because yes – you’ve got rights even when you’ve been laid off!

First of all, there are a few steps that your employer has to follow when in the process of making you redundant to make the termination of the contract legally valid. These can be put together into four main categories:

Consultation period means the period of time during which an employer must carry out a meaningful consultation with employees who are at risk of redundancy or affected by it.

You’re entitled to a consultation with your employer if you’re being made redundant; it’s your right. During this consultation, your employer needs to explain to you why you’re being made redundant and any alternatives to redundancy. They should also explain what support is on offer if redundancy is confirmed, such as a reasonable amount of paid time off to look for new employment. Your employer must hold a genuine and meaningful consultation with you. This means they must also listen to your ideas and try to come to an agreement with you.

If your employer is making up to 19 redundancies, there are no rules about how they should carry out the consultation. However, if they’re making 20 or more redundancies at the same time, they might need to have collective consultation.

If you feel like your employer isn’t consulting in a proper manner or doesn’t consult at all, you can make a claim to an 

Does consultation period count as notice?

A lot of the times, there’s a fine line between the consultation period and the notice period. This is because employers want to get done with letting their employees go as soon as possible to avoid delays and reduce financial expenditure.

But these two periods; consultation and notice, are separate from one another and cannot be combined under the same duration. An employer cannot give notice of dismissal to affected employees until the consultation period has genuinely finished, and statutory notice cannot end until after the minimum consultation periods have expired.

There's no time limit for how long the period of consultation should be, but the minimum is: For 20 to 99 redundancies, the consultation must start at least 30 days before any dismissals take effect. And for 100 or more redundancies, the consultation must start at least 45 days before any dismissals take effect.

The consultation can finish before the end of the minimum consultation period, but the dismissal cannot take effect (i.e. the notice period come to an end) until after the expiry of the minimum consultation period.

In other words, the statutory notice period can only start once the consultation period has genuinely completed.

How much notice period should my employer give me?

If you're being made redundant, it’s your right that your employer must tell you how long your notice period is – whether it’s statutory or contractual and keep paying you until the end of your notice period.

You'll usually carry on working until the end of your notice period. How much notice you get depends on how long you've worked for the employer.

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