Irish Examiner View: Log in M’lud - Court crosses a virtual rubicon

General view of the President of the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Frank Clarke speaking during the first remote sitting of the Supreme Court in the Four Courts yesterday(Mon).Pic: Collins Courts

Communications technology long commonplace in many work environments reached a new setting in Ireland yesterday when, for the first time a case was heard in a virtual Supreme Court.

Those involved, the litigants and the judges, were not in the same room but communicated via remote video technology.