UK courts to introduce tablets, vow to reduce on tree killing ways

It is going to not be retiring the powdered wigs just yet, but based on The Guardian, the British government is able to replace traditional paper documents with tablets in UK courtrooms. Starting in April, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will give slates to Welsh and English prosecutors to store all forms and evidentiary items, later extending the offer to judges, jurors and defense lawyers. To begin, administrators will give 35 Hewlett-Packard tablets to prosecutors in Norfolk as a test for the larger roll out, that is estimated to save lots of around £50 million (or around $78 million) in dead trees around the UK. There isn’t a word yet which tablet HP has in mind, but likelihood is it’s going to not be the cut price rack TouchPad — perhaps a Windows tablet is more so as during this court.