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  • Consultations

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    Legal Aid Taxation Reform and Statutory Charge Registration

    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...

    Published 16 March 2022 Consultation Closed

    Third Statutory Review of the Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings

    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

    Published 14 March 2022 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on Measures to Strengthen the Response to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

    Consultation on Measures to Strengthen the Response to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

    Published 13 March 2022 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on Hate Crime Legislation in Northern Ireland

    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...

    Published 31 January 2022 Consultation Closed

    Call for Views – Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy and Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy

    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.

    Published 10 January 2022 Consultation Closed

    Consultation oversight stocktake and oponi review

    Consultation on oversight stocktake and oponi review

    Published 21 December 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on review of status and governance of PBNI

    A consultation on a review of the status and governance of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI).

    Published 6 December 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on Charlottes Law

    This consultation is designed to elicit your views on the need for new legislation, and on any other possible solutions. I encourage those with an interest in this area to engage with this important process...

    Published 29 November 2021 Consultation Closed

    Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (Amendment) Regulations 2021 Consultation

    This consultation seeks views on proposals on amendments to the Regulations that govern the procedure of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST). These amendments are required as a result of the intention of...

    Published 13 September 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on the Magistrates’ Courts and County Court Appeals Rules

    The Magistrates’ Courts and County Court Appeals (Criminal Legal Aid) (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2009 (“the 2009 Rules”) prescribe the remuneration for solicitors and counsel representing defendants in publicly funded criminal cases in the Magistrates’...

    Published 21 July 2021 Consultation Closed

    Engagement Paper: Pro Bono Costs

    The core function of the Department of Justice (the Department) is to help create a fair, just and safe community where we respect the law and each other. In achieving that objective we are already...

    Published 8 July 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on Non Fatal Strangulation

    This consultation addresses a recommendation made by Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland that the Department of Justice should review how potential inadequacies in current legislation regarding the act of choking or strangulation by defendants could...

    Published 7 July 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation minor settlements

    The Department is consulting on whether, and if so how, it ought to legislate to require court approval of compensation settlements to children for personal injuries in cases in which legal proceedings have not issued.

    Published 7 July 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation for the introduction of standard legal aid fees

    Introduction of Standard Legal Aid Fees for Solicitors in Article 8 and Article 50 of The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 proceedings in the Family Proceedings Court.

    Published 1 June 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on Victims and Witness strategy and establishment of Victims Commissioner for Northern Ireland

    The Department wants to hear your views on the proposals in this consultation and is keen to hear any other comments that you consider relevant on the Victim and Witness Strategy and / or on...

    Published 6 May 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on Legal Aid for Mediation in Non-Family Civil Cases

    A consultation on proposals to provide the arrangements for funding mediation in civil cases where legal aid has been granted. Legal aid has been available for mediation in family civil disputes for some time, and...

    Published 4 May 2021 Consultation Closed

    Modern slavery transparency in supply chains

    The department is seeking your views on measures to eradicate modern slavery from the supply chains of public and commercial sector organisations.

    Published 17 February 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on publication of annual payments to suppliers of legal aid

    The Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland has launched a public consultation seeking views on options for the re-establishment of the policy to publish, on an annual basis, details of the payment of public funds to...

    Published 4 February 2021 Consultation Closed

    Consultation on increasing the jurisdiction of county court

    The Department is seeking your views as to whether improvements could be made to the efficient disposal of civil cases by increasing the general civil jurisdiction of the county courts from its current limit of...

    Published 4 February 2021 Consultation Closed

    Proposed strategy to support and challenge women and girls in contact with the justice system

    The Department of Justice has launched a public consultation on a proposed justice-wide strategy to support and challenge women and girls in contact with the justice system. This strategy is focused on women and girls...

    Published 14 January 2021 Consultation Closed

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