Policy paper

Crime and Courts Act 2013, part 2: courts and justice

Court and justice reforms introduced by part 2 will deliver a swifter, more open and effective courts and tribunals system.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 11 May 2012

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Factsheet: courts and justice - new civil courts for England and Wales

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Factsheet: courts and justice - judicial appointments and flexible judicial deployment

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Factsheet: couts and justice - payment of fines and other sums

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Factsheet: courts and justice - disclosure of information for calculating fees of courts, tribunals etc

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Factsheet: courts and justice - enabling the making, and use, of films and other recordings of proceedings

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Impact Assessment: A Single County Court for England and Wales

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Impact Assessment: A Single Family Court for England and Wales

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Impact Assessment: Payment of fines and other sums

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Impact Assessment: Disclosure of information for calculating fees of courts, tribunals etc.

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Impact Assessment: Privacy Impact Assessment: Disclosure of information for calculating fees of courts, tribunals etc.

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Factsheet: courts and justice - self defence

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Factsheet: courts and justice - community sentencing

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Factsheet: courts and justice - deferred prosecution agreements

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Details

The package of court and justice reforms introduced by part 2 of the Act will deliver a swifter, more open and effective courts and tribunals system, introduce greater transparency in the judicial appointments process, improve judicial diversity, reform community and non-custodial sentencing, establish a new system for exemplary damages and costs and who they will apply too, provide additional safeguards in the UK’s extradition arrangements, amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and establish a new tool to tackle economic crime, namely Deferred Prosecution Agreements.

• Return to the main page of the Crime and Courts Act

Useful documents

• proposals for broadcasting selected courts proceedingscan be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages
• an impact assessment and equality impact assessment covering the Ministry of Justice’s reforms to the judicial appointments process can be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages alongside the government’s response to the recent consultation ‘Appointments and Diversity: A Judiciary for the 21st Century’
• an impact assessment and equality impact assessment covering the Ministry of Justice’s reforms to community and non-custodial sentencing can be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages alongside the government’s response to the recent consultation ‘Punishment and Reform: effective community sentences’
• an impact assessment and equality impact assessment covering the establishment of Deferred Prosecution Agreements can be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages alongside the government’s response to the recent consultation on ‘a new enforcement tool to deal with economic crime committed by commercial organisation: Deferred Prosecution Agreement’

Published 11 May 2012