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The annual judicial pay review 2023 to 2024.
Remit letter from Minister of State for Justice to the Chair of the Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB).
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Government funding will unlock project while creating a new state-of-the-art court in Blackpool
Over 600 jobs are set to be created as construction starts on the UK’s first all-electric prison at Full Sutton in East Yorkshire.
Thousands of troubled youngsters will be put back on the right track thanks to a new £5 million fund for crime-cutting sports schemes, the Deputy Prime Minister has announced today (4 November 2022).
Around 20,000 people facing debt difficulties will be invited to receive free early-stage legal advice through a new pilot launched by the government on 31 October 2022.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of Beverley Thompson-Brown OBE as a non-judicial member of the Sentencing Council.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of Ian Curtis-Nye as a lay member of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee (CPRC).
His Majesty The King, on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, has approved the appointment of a new Commissioner to the Judicial Appointments Commission.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
The interest rates were increased for Court Funds Office special and basic accounts today (25 October 2022).
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.
The construction of a state-of-the-art combined court is underway in the heart of London’s legal centre as part of Salisbury Square, a new development on Fleet Street.
Ministers have approved the appointment of Oliver Hyams and Daniel Warents as Barrister Members of the Insolvency Rules Committee for 3 years from 31 October 2022.
Thousands of domestic abuse victims will be able to access free legal advice and representation under new changes to the legal aid system introduced today (17 October 2022).
Full text of a speech given by the Lord Chancellor, Brandon Lewis MP, at the Approbation ceremony for the new Lord Mayor of London
The Justice Secretary, Brandon Lewis MP, has today (Tuesday 4 October) announced that more thieves, burglars and robbers will be fitted with GPS electronic tags when they leave prison, helping cut crime and keep the public s…
Prisoners at open prisons in England are to start high-quality apprenticeships at big name employers thanks to change in law and the Government's skills agenda.
Law changed to enforce randomised, compulsory drug testing for offenders after they are released from prison.
UK to implement services sanctions and export ban that target Russian economic vulnerabilities in response to Putin’s illegal annexation of Ukrainian regions.
Full text of the speech given by Brandon Lewis MP as he was sworn in as the Lord Chancellor at the Royal Courts of Justice.
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