About Pexip Secure Meetings for Justice

The Pexip Secure Meetings for Justice ("Pexip Justice") solution enables judiciaries to hold virtual or hybrid court hearings, video arraignments and virtual interactions in corrections systems, in a Pexip Virtual Meeting Room (VMR).

The Pexip solution:

  • Provides secure, easy-to-join court hearings from any location.
  • Supports the workflow of hearings using an adaptable set of user roles, strong authentication, and room configurations.
  • Judicial staff can easily schedule proceedings and invite the appropriate participants (witnesses, defendants, the judge, and so on).
  • Judges can control the hearing and can join directly from a web browser or video endpoint.
  • Allows the defense or prosecution teams to initiate private consultations.
  • Requires no additional downloads or plugins for users.

Solution overview

A hearing is held in a single-use VMR within Pexip Infinity. Typically a hearing involves participants with different roles such as a judge, defendant, prosecutor and witness (if required).

The configuration of Pexip Justice and Pexip Infinity installations need to align precisely (with certain shared configuration values) for the integration to work correctly.

How it works

When the participant joins a hearing in Pexip Justice, an integrated video call is launched within the web browser on the user's device and initiates a video call to a Pexip InfinityConferencing Node. This triggers an external policy request from Pexip Infinity to Pexip Justice and the policy server responds with the meeting parameters (service type, themes, alias, PINs and so on) and a single-use VMR is created specifically for the hearing. All the call signaling and media is between the user and Pexip Infinity.

Pexip Justice uses breakout rooms to create separate sessions that are split off from the main hearing. Breakout rooms allow smaller groups of people to meet together, as a defendant and witness may need to do, for example. When participants are in a breakout room they can only see, hear or share content with each other — they are separated from the main hearing and any other breakout rooms. Preconfigured user roles can ensure that each participant is placed into a specific breakout room, or the main hearing, when they join.

Key features of Pexip Secure Meetings for Justice (version 2.0.0).

Overview of how the Pexip Justice portal (version 2.0.0) is used to configure and schedule new hearings.