The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on proposals to divert more cases involving low-level offending behaviour away from the criminal courts.
This consultation provides detail of proposed changes to the 2015 Police Pension Scheme Regulations to: Provide active or deferred members previously excluded from ill health retirement in the 2015 scheme, with an option to be...
The Department of Justice is seeking views on the proposal to increase the existing maximum sentences for the offence of causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to die or suffer serious physical harm.
The Department of Justice has launched a consultation, seeking views on proposals to permit the recording and broadcasting of some court proceedings, including judgments and legal exchanges in the Court of Appeal and sentencing remarks...
The Minister of Justice is committed to improving the experience of victims and witnesses of crime in the criminal justice system. In addition to the trauma that the crime itself can cause, it is recognised...
The purpose of this consultation is to invite your views on the way in which the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland deals with reductions in sentence length when a plea of guilty is entered.
The Department would like your views on proposed updates to the list of Qualifying Offences contained in Article 53A of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.
The Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (NICTS) has launched a public consultation on proposed changes to court fees, including annual increases. The proposals will enable NICTS to continue to strive towards a position of...
The Department would like your views on our proposals to simplify the sentencing framework for children by replacing the existing seven court-ordered community sentences with a new, single, flexible order.
This Reform Programme aims to improve how access to justice is delivered and supported. The Delivery Plan reflects how the Department intends to progress reform. Each reform proposal will be subject to detailed consultation, but...
As part of the Minister of Justice’s Enabling Access to Justice Reform Programme, the Department are holding a public consultation on proposals relating to the remuneration of Solicitors and Barristers providing access to legally-aided services.
This consultation relates to the impact assessments for the Department of Justice proposals relating to revised remuneration rates (criminal, civil and family) for solicitors and barristers.
This Call for Evidence seek views from those with an interest in the provisions of the Aarhus Convention regarding legal challenges in relation to environmental matters.
This consultation provides detail of proposed changes to the 2015 Police Pension Scheme Regulations to amend the employee contribution rates and bandings to address a shortfall in employee contributions following the 2020 pension scheme valuation...
The Minister of Justice has launched a consultation and is seeking the views of the public on proposals for inclusion in a Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill.
The Department of Justice is seeking views on its plans to decriminalise rough sleeping and begging by repealing the relevant provisions of the Vagrancy Act 1824 and the Vagrancy (Ireland) Act 1847 and whether respondents...
A public consultation has been launched on the Northern Ireland Safe Community Survey (NISCS) and is being carried out via an online Citizen Space questionnaire. An accompanying paper that provides further information on the consultation...
This consultation paper invites consultees to consider suggested uplifts to fees for planning appeals and deemed planning applications
The public is being invited to have their say on ideas and priorities to include in a strategy to help improve the experiences of victims and witnesses when engaging with the criminal justice system.
The Department of Justice is seeking your views on the revisions of the draft PACE Codes of Practice (A to H) and new draft PACE Code of Practice I (Persons detained under national security provisions).