News and communications

Boat-owner’s challenges 'relentless' – Environment Agency.

• Updated: 22 April 2024

Fines and costs dwarf licence price as anglers caught in Southampton, Bermondsey and West Drayton

• Updated: 18 April 2024

Despicable people who create sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ will face prosecution under a new law announced by the government today (16 April 2024).

• Updated: 16 April 2024

General announcements and latest decisions of the Certification Officer

• Updated: 12 April 2024

A licence to fish for the day would have cost the angler £7.10. His fine for not getting one? £220!

• Updated: 12 April 2024

Angler caught and in court.

• Updated: 5 April 2024

More than 27,000 separating families have saved money, protected their children and avoided lengthy, combative courtroom battles, thanks to a £23.6 million government scheme.

• Updated: 3 April 2024

High fine sends warning message to those with unregistered boats. Patrols on Thames have already begun for summer 2024.

• Updated: 22 March 2024

A small boat pilot has been jailed after crossing the Channel with more than 50 migrants in a perilously overcrowded dinghy.

• Updated: 21 March 2024

Tougher sentences for cowardly killers delivered a year on from Wade Review.

• Updated: 18 March 2024

Opening times for courts and tribunals over the Easter period.

• Updated: 15 March 2024

The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointments 8 Court Examiners for 5 years from 1 April 2024.

• Updated: 14 March 2024

Are you interested in observing the rule making process?

• Updated: 11 March 2024

Cases due to be heard by the Certification Officer.

• Updated: 5 March 2024

A people smuggler has been jailed for cramming 7 migrants into a one-person sleeping compartment and brazenly trying to enter the UK.

• Updated: 16 February 2024

A total of 20 Nightingale courtrooms will remain open in 2024 to allow more cases to be heard across the country, the government has announced today (16 February 2024).

• Updated: 16 February 2024

Court and tribunal capacity in Leeds is set to be boosted by the opening of new state-of-the art courts and tribunals in the city centre, giving victims, defendants and claimants quicker access to justice.

• Updated: 15 February 2024

Cowards who kill their partners with sexual violence will face longer behind bars as the government continues to clamp down on domestic abuse against women.

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Pensioner's Poltimore piles prison punishment.

• Updated: 9 February 2024

A man from east London must repay £10,000 within one week after falsely applying for a Covid Bounce Back Loan.

• Updated: 9 February 2024