Audio visual testimony, paper committal laws hardly being used

Two years after government passed legislation to clear the way for paper committals, plea bargains and gathering evidence by audio visual link, the laws are hardly being used and some attorneys believe that implementing structures are needed.

Plea deals are being discussed and, in some cases, accepted by the state, making it the only one of the three laws which is being used with some regularity.

In the first and only known court application for the alternative use of paper committals,