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  • Reappointment of Family Procedure Rule Committee member

    The Lord Chancellor has announced the reappointment of Michael Seath as a member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee for 3 years from 11 September 2021.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Trade Mission to promote UK legal services in Middle East

    A crack team of experts led by Lord Wolfson QC will promote the UK’s prestigious legal services to the Middle East in a week-long trade mission to Dubai starting today (22 November 2021).

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Offenders to be banned from drinking to cut alcohol-fuelled crime

    Offenders released from prison face being banned from drinking from today (17 November 2021) under world-first plans to curb alcohol-fuelled crime.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Plan to help families access Child Trust Funds

    Proposed new scheme to help families access funds belonging to loved ones who lack mental capacity without need to go to court.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Immediate action to improve Oakhill

    Prisons Minister Victoria Atkins has today (11 November 2021) outlined urgent action to address ‘unacceptable’ failings at a secure training centre run by G4S.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • ‘Super courtroom’ opens in Loughborough

    Suspected criminal gangs will face justice at the country’s second ‘super courtroom,’ which opens in Loughborough today (9 November 2021).

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Deputy Prime Minister attends topping out ceremony for new prison at Glen Parva

    The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, spoke at a ceremony to mark the last phase of major construction work at the new prison at Glen Parva in Leicestershire – about his plans for state-of-…

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • UK’s greenest and most innovative prison unveiled

    Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has unveiled the greenest and most innovative jail in the country.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Largest funding increase in more than a decade for justice system

    Victims, courts and prisons will benefit from the Ministry of Justice’s largest funding increase in more than a decade, awarded in yesterday’s Spending Review.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Dominic Raab hosts offender employment summit

    The Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary talked to businesses about how plugging skills gaps with prisoners and ex-offenders can help us to bring down crime.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Giving an ex-offender a second chance can be a win-win for business, says Deputy Prime Minister

    Deputy Prime Minister sets out step-change in how prisons help offenders into work.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • New "Nightingale" court opens in Warwick

    A fifth Nightingale court will open its doors in the Midlands as the push to speed up justice in the region gathers pace.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Over 10,000 attempts to smuggle contraband thwarted by X-ray body scanners

    X-ray body scanners have stopped 10,000 attempts to smuggle contraband including drugs, weapons and phones into prisons in just over a year.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Ministry of Justice statement in fee-paid judicial litigation: October 2021

    A further update on work MOJ is doing to respond to the CJEU judgment of November 2018 in O’Brien No.2 and the Supreme Court’s judgment in Miller of December 2019.

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  • Prisoners recycle hundreds of bikes for hospital staff

    An innovative prison programme that encourages inmates to repair and recycle bikes will aim to refurbish over 900 bikes for hospital staff and children from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping prisoners gain new skills and tu…

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Lord Wolfson speech: Legal Wales Conference

    Lord (David) Wolfson of Tredegar QC speech at the Legal Wales Conference on 8 October 2021.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Courts go green

    Courts and tribunals across England and Wales are going green thanks to a £40m government investment to cut their carbon emissions.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Offenders to pay back society more visibly under £90 million plan

    Offenders’ community punishments will be better focused on paying back society under a £93 million expansion plan.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Tens of thousands more criminals to be tagged to cut crime and protect victims

    Almost 26,000 extra offenders will be tagged over the next 3 years under an ambitious £180 million plan to expand the use of electronic monitoring to cut crime.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Dominic Raab’s Speech at the Opening of the Legal Year 2021

    Speech delivered by the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary at Westminster Hall to mark the Opening of the Legal Year.

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    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government