Across the globe, judiciaries trust Pexip to deliver technology for virtual and hybrid court hearings, video arraignments, virtual interactions in corrections systems, and policing.
The Pexip Virtual Courts solution is purpose-built for courts to simplify, modernize, and enhance communications and proceedings in courtrooms, enabling courts to improve operational efficiencies, reduce no-shows, save time, and reduce costs.
The remote court environment replicates the workflow of a hearing using an adaptable set of:
The remote court environment replicates the workflow of a hearing using an adaptable set of:
- User roles, including strong authentication
- Room configurations
- Workflow automation rules
Why do global judiciaries choose Pexip for their virtual and hybrid court sessions?

Seamless interoperability
Remote hearings can take place regardless of location, video meeting platform, or hardware. This means participants can conveniently join from any device such as a laptop, webcam-enabled PC, browser, mobile device, or using an existing courtroom video system.

Security-first collaboration
Pexip’s enterprise-grade video conferencing solutions use industry-standard encryption and security protocols to maintain privacy and security for end-user devices and all participants in hearings.

Easy to use
The Pexip Virtual courts solution adapts to the way people work and integrates seamlessly with the technology already being used in the courts. The result is an intuitive and consistent experience in every courtroom, so participants can get right down to business.
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Tailored to your needs
Using a comprehensive set of APIs can enable more sophisticated applications that are tailored to your needs and integrate with virtually any relevant third-party application. This allows you to make video a seamless part of your existing workflow.
Judicial workflows using Pexip Virtual Courts
Before the hearing
Judicial staff can easily schedule proceedings
This workflow shows how judicial staff can schedule proceedings: book a date/time/judge in their existing scheduling tools and we will integrate this flow into the Pexip Virtual Courts solution.

During the hearing
Judges have full control over the proceeding
Defense and prosecution teams remain separate in private, virtual waiting rooms. The judge can then move these groups, or individuals like witnesses, between private waiting rooms and the virtual courtroom at any time during the proceeding.

Pexip Virtual Courts: Rooms
Waiting room
Waiting rooms can be configured differently depending on the court’s requirements. In a typical waiting room, participants can see who has arrived within their own group.
Witnesses are anonymous (nobody can hear or see them) in the waiting room. They can also be shown as anonymous in the courtroom if needed. They will remain in the waiting room until the judge or clerk brings them in to the main hearing room.

Temporary private room
Before the hearing begins, participants can initiate private consultations from the waiting room, for an example a defendant and his/her lawyer can meet before the hearing to discuss the case.
During an active hearing, the judge can use the Judge’s Chambers to initiate private consultations with selected participants from the courtroom.

Courtroom
This is the main room in the court flow. Here the judge is given extra controls including the ability to pause an active hearing and mute all. Rules and automations can also be configured for example, action A or B is triggered when a specialist joins.

Judge’s Chambers
Used for the judge to override court flow configurations, prepare the court case, and can also be used as a private room in an ongoing court case.

Customer voices:
How do global judiciaries use our video platform?
"The role of technology here is not to support and enhance our old ways of working but to overhaul and often replace our practices of the past".
Richard Susskind
The Future of Courts, Harvard Law School
Feature highlights
Easy to participate
All users need to authenticate themselves using the court’s selected authentication service. After the users have authenticated themselves, they are able to test that they are able to connect with both audio and video.
A preflight video can be shown to participants to ensure court rules and conduct are understood and adhered to.
A preflight video can be shown to participants to ensure court rules and conduct are understood and adhered to.
Participants also have the opportunity to have private consultations before the hearing begins.
Judge: Full overview of all hearings
The judge has a full overview of all of their scheduled hearings for the day from one single screen.

Judge: Meeting settings
In the Meeting settings tab, the judge can set general meeting rules including rules for who can bypass the lobby, who can present, announcement of people entering/leaving and muting options.

Judge: Change layout
The Change layout tab allows the judge to override the existing layout for the court hearing. Layout options include adaptive composition, equal focus, speaker focus, highlight and theatre.

Judge: Starts the hearing
When the judge starts the hearing, all groups, with the exception of witnesses, are automatically moved into the courtroom after a countdown that has been configured based on that specific court flow.
The court flow can also be configured to have the judge admit all participants individually or by groups.
Judge's chambers
The Judge can arrange a private consultation with one or several people from the hearing at any time.
Participants invited to the private consultation are automatically sent to the Judge's chambers. All other participants will return to their respective waiting rooms.
Participants invited to the private consultation are automatically sent to the Judge's chambers. All other participants will return to their respective waiting rooms.
Judge: In court - Spotlight
The Judge can choose to put someone in spotlight if they are making a long speech for example when the witness has been brought into the court room to give their testimonial.
Court Clerk: Management Dashboard
The court clerk has a full overview of all ongoing and scheduled hearings and can monitor and manage multiple court hearings from a browser-based dashboard.
From this dashboard, the court clerk is also able to support and chat with participants in multiple hearings.
From this dashboard, the court clerk is also able to support and chat with participants in multiple hearings.