The Commercial Court's Judicial Registrar Hetyey has recently spoken about the Supreme Court's ambitions to achieve an end-to-end paperless court and trial system. The Court is determined not to allow its 19th century building get in the way of 21st century trials. A full copy of the paper is available here.

The Supreme Court is actively working on reforms to bring the Court's processes and systems up-to-date with wider changes in technology, social media, and cope with increasingly complex and lengthy litigation.

The main topics include:

E-filing: the norm for filing new matters since 2014, which may be done at any time from anywhere in the world.
Judges Portal: An online portal which enables judges and registry to view an electronic file which appears similar to the old paper filing systems, but with all the benefits of digitisation.
Upgrades to courtroom technology: A plan to have the facilities for all trials (not just mega-litigation) to be electronic by 2020.
Technology in Civil Litigation Practice Note.
The possibilities of new technology: Of special note is the possibility (or probability) that voice-recognition technology will one day remove the need for the current expensive transcription service, enabling cheaper access to transcript for all parties.

In the meanwhile, the Supreme Court has allowed appeal books, court books and folders of authorities filed in hard copy to be printed double-sided since January 2017.

You can read more about how to prepare for a Commercial Court hearing, including how to address the Court's 'paperless presumption' in my post here.

An article from IBM about the Court's new cloud capacity is here.

Another article from the Law Institute about the entire court system moving paperless is here.