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First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Victims’ experiences to be transformed through new Victims and Prisoners Bill.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Judiciary of England and Wales are calling on employers to join the hundreds already benefitting from supporting staff to volunteer as magistrates.
Transgender women with male genitalia will no longer be able to be held in mainstream women’s prisons, under new measures coming into force today.
Vulnerable children across England and Wales will be better protected from the damaging impact of forced marriage as the legal age of marriage rises to 18 in England and Wales.
Dozens more former police officers and detectives with experience of managing dangerous offenders will be recruited as part of plans to toughen up the parole system.
Construction firms have pitched up in prisons across England and Wales for the latest major drive to match offenders with jobs in sectors facing skill shortages and cut crime.
Dominic Raab addressed guests at the Policy Exchange in London for the launch of the Linklaters report 'The Rule of Law: everyone has a part to play'.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Better technology means courts are punishing drug drive offenders in record numbers.
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