Jail Mail-Release of CHRI’s Report ‘Disconnected: Videoconferencing and Fair Trial’

Restricted functioning of physical courts owing to the pandemic has resulted in courts experimenting with videoconference hearings. Conducting criminal trials through videoconferencing however can result in several fair trial rights being compromised. CHRI’s recently released report, Disconnected: Videoconferencing and Fair Trial Rights, looks at some of these issues at length. This issue of Jail Mail provides a brief overview of the report and the urgent need to engage with this issue, in light of the Supreme Court eCommittee’s Draft Vision Document being open for comments.