The department is consulting on proposals arising from the Review of the List of Specified Offences. This List sets out the serious and violent crimes (including sexual crimes and crimes relating to safeguarding or child...
Consultation on the Draft Police Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023
The Department of Justice has launched a consultation on evidence of domestic abuse that should trigger an automatic prohibition on cross-examination in person in family courts.
The Departments of Health and Justice are seeking views on a new draft Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy to cover the period from 2023 until 2030. This will replace the current Stopping Domestic and Sexual...
Secondary legislation is required to make these amendments and this consultation paper seeks the views of consultees on the draft regulations.
The Department is consulting on a number of different options which would provide coroners in Northern Ireland with a statutory power to undertake an investigation into the death abroad of a Northern Ireland citizen where...
This Call for Evidence centres on recent amendment made to the abuse of position of trust provision by Section 5 of the Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022. It seeks supporting...
The Department of Justice is seeking views from key stakeholders in the public and private sectors on the fees to be charged for planning appeals and deemed planning applications from 1st April 2023.
The Department of Justice is seeking views from the public and key stakeholders across a wide range of sectors on a new three-year modern slavery and human trafficking strategy that seeks to build on the...
The Department is holding a public consultation on increasing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (MACR) in Northern Ireland.
Public consultation on audio and video ‘live links’ for court and tribunal hearings
The Department of Justice (“DoJ”) is consulting from 6 June 2022 to 1 August 2022 on proposals to reappoint Lay Magistrates who were required to retire at the age of 70, following the increase in...
The Department of Justice aims to ensure the civil and family justice system in fair, proportionate, accessible and responsive. To that end the Department is seeking views on the extension of Registered Intermediary support to...
This reform will improve accountability and predictability over subject legal aid expenditure, which, in turn, will help the Department ensure legal aid funding is available to those who need it most. The proposed reforms to...
Third Statutory Review of the Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005, as amended: Consultation on Initial Findings of the Review
Consultation on Measures to Strengthen the Response to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
The Department wants to hear your views on the issues raised by this consultation. We would be particularly pleased to hear from victims of hate crime, voluntary and community sector organisations supporting victims of hate...
Call for Views to inform the development of a new Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy and an Equally Safe Strategy – A Strategy to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls.
Consultation on oversight stocktake and oponi review