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Long hours pilot

29 January 2020
Issue: 7872 / Categories: Legal News
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A pilot of longer opening hours began this week at courts and tribunals service centres

The centres, which provide services on divorce, probate, social security and other legal or administrative matters, will be open from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 2pm on Saturdays.

The first two centres opened in Stoke and Birmingham a year ago as part of the HM Courts and Tribunals Service’s £1bn reform programme. A third centre is due to open in Loughborough in the spring. Justice minister Chris Philp said the centres answered 500,000 queries last year.

Issue: 7872 / Categories: Legal News
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