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CEO Nick Goodwin responds to the National Audit Office (NAO) report on the HMCTS Reform Programme.
A persistent and aggressive robber has had his sentence increased by two years and six months after his case was referred under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Drug dealer who supplied heroin and cocaine in the Worcester area will spend longer in prison.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of 8 Court Examiners for 5 years from 1 March 2023.
Nightingale Courts across England and Wales are being kept open for another year to reduce waiting times and deliver swift justice for victims.
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.
Members of an organised crime group which smuggled more than a dozen Middle Eastern nationals into the UK have been jailed for a combined 26 years.
Additional features to make Common Platform easier for defence professionals to use.
Legal professionals must submit and complete all applications for financial remedy online using MyHMCTS.
Reviewing the fees that enforcement agents (bailiffs) can recover when enforcing debts and fines.
For some minor offences, companies can now be prosecuted without the need to go to court.
Threatening behaviour and fishing without a licence cost angler more than £2,000.
Victims are seeing significant improvements in the criminal justice system’s response to rape, a new report has revealed today (15 December 2022).
Our new digital support service aims to remove the barriers that some users face when accessing our online services.
Thousands more immigration cases will be heard over the next few months, speeding up decisions on removing people with no right to be in the UK.
Thousands more people will get access to early legal help over the next 2 years after the government announced £12 million of new grant funding today. (28 November 2022).
The interest rates were increased for Court Funds Office special and basic accounts on 18 November 2022.
Government funding will unlock project while creating a new state-of-the-art court in Blackpool
On Friday 4 November 2022, Bolton man Olarotimi Ojugbele was handed a 26-week jail sentence, suspended for 18 months by Willesden Magistrates' Court, plus a 15-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement to be completed with…
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