We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Bring photo ID to vote Check what photo ID you'll need to vote in person in the General Election on 4 July.
You can now find details of vacancies in your area and apply online at the Volunteer to be a Magistrate website.
A list of approved premises located in the Kent, Surrey & Sussex region of the Probation Service, with phone numbers of each building.
A new government-backed scheme providing free legal advice to help 38,000 people a year at risk of losing their home launches today (1 August).
Criminals who commit alcohol-fuelled crime may be banned from drinking and made to wear ‘sobriety tags’ after new legislation comes into force today (19 May 2020).
Decision-making, executive and managerial bodies in the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
Nottingham Probation Office, is a probation contact centre, within the East Midlands region.
Rules and guidance for prison staff to manage communications controls and interception across prisons and Young Offenders Institutions.
‘Cyberflashing’ will become a new criminal offence with perpetrators facing up to two years behind bars under new laws to be introduced by the Government.
Wrongly convicted people will no longer face having “saved living costs” deducted from compensation payments following an update to guidance made today (Sunday 6 August).
Type and volume of cases received and processed through the criminal court system of England and Wales, including statistics on case timeliness.
People who maliciously share sexually explicit pictures of former partners will face prosecution under new laws.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Rules and guidance for prison staff on how to carry out a disciplinary hearing when a prisoner is alleged to have broken prison rules before 31 May 2024.
Offenders face up to 2 years in jail, with most serious put on sex offenders register.
Press office contacts
Type and volume of tribunal cases received, disposed of or outstanding. This also includes statistics on the Gender Recognition Certificate applied for and granted by HMCTS Gender Recognition Panel.
A list of approved premises located in the West Midlands region of the Probation Service, with phone numbers of each building.
Mitie Care & Custody has been awarded the contract to operate HMP Millsike, the UK’s first all-electric prison that will provide around 1,500 places.
A collection giving National Statistics on activity in the family courts of England and Wales.
Guidance on applying for the early release of a sentenced prisoner, child or young person on compassionate grounds.
These reports present the key statistics on activity in the legal aid system for England and Wales.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).