We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Emergency Alerts Test on Sunday 7 September, 3pm
How to give an employee time off to volunteer as a magistrate, and how much time they are allowed off
Use these forms to apply for a production order under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), schedule 1, paragraph 4.
Use this form to introduce evidence of a non-defendant's bad character.
Use this form to respond to an application for the extension of pre-charge bail.
Report a rape or sexual assault to the police or a Sexual Assault Referral Centre - find out what happens next and the support available
Form for paying money into a Court Funds Office account as a result of a court case or settlement.
Use this form for cases sent from magistrates' court to Crown Court for trial.
Use this form to introduce evidence of a defendant’s bad character.
Find out whether your biometric data is likely to be on a police database - fingerprints, DNA sample, kept after arrest, crime, conviction
Form for asking to be paid money held in a Court Funds Office account as part of an offer to settle a damages claim.
Form for making a one-off payment from money in a Court Funds Office account, if you're looking after someone's money as a deputy.
Use this form to introduce hearsay evidence.
Get compensation if you've been injured, a victim of crime or because of unfair working conditions
Use this form for a defendant to apply for prosecution disclosure.
Use this form to apply to the magistrates’ court or Crown Court to state a case for an appeal to the High Court.
Use this form to appeal against a Crown Court conviction.
You can now apply online to become a magistrate. Paper application forms are no longer being accepted.
Victims of a serious crime by someone detained due to mental illness can ask to submit an impact statement and for conditions to be attached to their release.
Apply for parole if you're a young offender - who can apply, how to apply, help with parole, appeal against a decision
Use this form to apply to exclude evidence of a defendant’s bad character.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).