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
A consultation on a review of the status and governance of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI).
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
The department is seeking your views on measures to eradicate modern slavery from the supply chains of public and commercial sector organisations.
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...
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...
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...