The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (“MCA 2005”) provides a statutory framework to empower and protect people who may lack capacity to make some decisions for themselves. The Public Guardian does this by registering Lasting Powers of Attorneys (LPA) and Enduring...More
This consultation relates to the methodology to be used by the Lord Chancellor and his counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland in independently setting the discount rate for personal injury damages in their respective jurisdictions.
The consultation is aimed at people and organisations...More
This consultation paper invites views from interested parties on the draft Code of Practice for Adult Conditional Cautions under Part 3 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. The Code of Practice makes provision for conditional cautions as a means of dealing with adult offenders in certain...More
This consultation paper invites views from interested parties on the draft Code of Practice for Youth Conditional Cautions under Section 48 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (that amends the Crime and Disorder Act 1998).Currently youth conditional cautions are only available for 16...More
The youth remand provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 received Royal Assent on 1 May 2012 and allows for local authorities to be given greater financial responsibility for secure remand.
In this consultation paper the Ministry of Justice and the Youth...More
We are seeking your views on the draft Welsh language scheme for the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The scheme sets out how NOMS will ensure that the public and Welsh-speaking prisoners have access to appropriate services in Welsh.
Setting out exactly what is required in...More
Triennial Review programme
The Government’s response to the Public Administration Select Committee report ‘Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango state’ sets out the plans for reforming public bodies. It includes new Triennial Review requirements for Non-Departmental Public Bodies...More
This consultation invites views on the fees for applications for authorisation and annual fees for the regulation year 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 and initial views on a fees framework for complaints handling by the Legal Ombudsman.
This consultation is primarily aimed at persons authorised...More
The Government is seeking views on a package of measures to stem the growth in applications for judicial reviews. The measures aim to tackle the burden that this growth has placed on stretched public services whilst protecting access to justice and the rule of law. The engagement exercise seeks...More
The consultation is aimed at anyone who has an interest in immigration, asylum and nationality matters or who would be affected by the removal of legal aid for most non-detention immigration appeals when the relevant provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012...More
The Government’s response to the Public Administration Select Committee report ‘Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango state’ sets out the plans for reforming public bodies. It includes new Triennial Review requirements for Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB).
Triennial Reviews are...More
The Government’s response to the Public Administration Select Committee report ‘Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango state’ sets out the plans for reforming public bodies. It includes new Triennial Review requirements for Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB).
Triennial Reviews are...More
Triennial Review programme
The Government’s response to the Public Administration Select Committee report ‘Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango state’ sets out the plans for reforming public bodies. It includes new Triennial Review requirements for Non-Departmental Public Bodies...More
‘Transforming Rehabilitation – a revolution in the way we manage offenders’ describes the Government’s proposals for reforming the delivery of offender services in the community to reduce reoffending rates whilst delivering improved value for money for the tax payer.
The proposals set...More
The law governing contempt of court is vast. Several specialist textbooks devote hundreds of pages to the topic. The number of different contempt offences is equally huge. Our work is necessarily constrained by the time and resources available and it would not be possible to produce meaningful...More
The Government is committed to finding ways of tackling fraudulent and exaggerated whiplash claims, whilst ensuring that people who have suffered a genuine neck injury should continue to be able to get appropriate compensation. However, increases in claims for compensation relating to whiplash...More
This is part of a wider consultation on a new guideline for sentencing sexual offences.
This section considers the offences of rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and sexual activity without consent.
The draft guidelines are for offenders who are over 18 years of age who have...More
This is part of a wider consultation on a new guideline for sentencing sexual offences.
This section deals with offences concerning the commercial sexual exploitation of both adults and children. The offences that will be dealt with in this part of the consultation are:
Sexual...More
This is part of a wider consultation on a new guideline for sentencing sexual offences.
The offences that will be dealt with in this part of the consultation are:
sexual activity with a child;
causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity;
sexual activity...More
This is part of a wider consultation on a new guideline for sentencing sexual offences.
This section covers offences relating to indecent images of children.
These offences relate to photographs (including moving images) and also images made, for example, on a computer but which look...More
This is part of a wider consultation on a new guideline for sentencing sexual offences.
The offences that will be dealt with in this part of the consultation are:
exposure;
voyeurism;
sex with an adult relative; and
preparatory offences (administering a...More
This is part of a wider consultation on a new guideline for sentencing sexual offences.
This section considers offences where the victim is a child and the offender is over the age of 18.
The definition of ‘child’ varies between offences in the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Generally, a...More
This is part of a wider consultation on a new guideline for sentencing sexual offences.
This section considers a number of offences designed to protect some of society’s most vulnerable adults who have a mental disorder. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 overhauled previous legislation in this...More
This consultation paper sets out our proposals for implementing the coroner reforms in Part 1 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. It seeks views on proposed coroner investigation regulations, inquest rules, fee and allowance regulations, coroner areas, and statutory guidance for bereaved...More
‘Transforming Youth Custody: Putting education at the heart of detention’ describes the Government’s plans for placing high quality education at the centre of youth custody. Plans to reform youth custody will see young people appropriately punished while at the same time learning to take...More
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Consultation on the draft Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill. This Bill gives effect to the recommendations in parts 2–7 of the Law Commission’s report, Intestacy and family provision claims on death.
The consultation is aimed at those with an interest in...More
This consultation paper seeks views on two subjects relating to the setting of the discount rate under section 1 of the Damages Act 1996:
Whether the legal parameters defining how the rate is set should be changed.
Whether there is a case for encouraging the use of periodical...More
This consultation sets out the Government’s plans to reform the Victims’ Code to give victims clearer entitlements from criminal justice agencies and to better tailor service to individual need. It is aimed at all criminal justice agencies, victims of crime and businesses.
The consultation...More
This consultation paper sets our proposals for reform of the fee remissions system, which ensures that access to justice is maintained for those individuals on lower incomes who would otherwise have difficultly paying a fee to use court or tribunal services.
The objective of these reform...More