Courts minister Sarah Sackman is a great enthusiast for digitising the justice system. At this week's Legal Geek networking event she explained a possible reason why.

It was one of her first cases as a young barrister, involving the closure of a hospital cafe which was serving 'very grubby sandwiches', she recalled. 'When I had to produce evidence, an environmental health officer handed me a plastic bag containing two very real and very dead mice'.