“At the heart of this progress will be the CPS/CGI COMPASS contract delivering all of the CPS information requirements from charging to prosecuting, from case preparation to working from home. This, in anyone’s judgment, is a transformation of profound proportion and will go a long way to delivering the CJS …

“The history of computing is littered with examples of solutions looking for a problem. This requires business managers to be very focused on the business case and subsequent benefits realisation of any project, as, for example, has been successfully achieved by the Crown Prosecution Service’s COMPASS case management programme.”