The increasing ubiquity of computers and Internet access led to public discussion of allowing greater use of information technology to run court proceedings.
In March 1992 the CCBC was created to remove the burden of routine matters in simple CPC cases from the other county court.
Instead of submitting an individual claim form along with an individual payment of the correct fee for each case, CCBC users submit a single file containing each of the claims they wish to issue on a particular day as a data record in a specified format.
CCBC users may poll the SDT API to request updates on the status of their cases.
As well as issuing claim forms, the CCBC also handles requests for judgments and warrants of execution in the same manner.
Where a defendant contests some, or all, of the claim, the claimant is required (if they wish to continue) to request the case be transferred out of the CCBC.