Publications

This guide explains how the Youth Justice Agency works to support parents, carers and families of young people

This guide provides an insight into the work of the Youth Justice Agency and explains the range of services delivered to young people, families, victims and the community.

Community groups across Northern Ireland are being invited to apply for the funding which comes from assets seized from criminals.

Breakdown of how many foreign national prisoners plus EEC prisoners are currently being held in Maghaberry Jail, where they are from, how many are on remand, how many have been convicted and their sentences. As at 25 November 2015.

This update presents the most recent statistics on the level of public confidence in policing and the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland as well as public perceptions of anti-social behaviour.

This paper provides a summary of the responses received to the consultation paper ‘Proposal to change the time limits for bringing a judicial review’ published by the Department on 22 June 2015.

Number of transgender & transsexual prisoners from 11 Nov 2011- Nov 2015

Provides details of arrangements for the instruction of interpreters and translators during the 2015/16 Christmas & New Year holiday period.

The amount of damages and costs paid to prisoners and their solicitors for the years 2013-2015 in relation to claims made against NIPS arising from sanitation, and or hygiene and or slopping out issues at HMP Magilligan.

On 29 January 2015 the Northern Ireland Courts & Tribunals Service (NICTS) published a consultation document seeking views on proposals to rationalise the current court estate and close a number of court buildings.

Questionnaire and the notes for Guidance on child abduction and Custody Act 1985

Conditional early release - 01 Aug - 31 Oct 2015 with offence

Prison Service management board minutes for 2015

This Progress report provides an update on the work of the Department and the work of the wider criminal justice system since the publication of the initial Action Plan in early April 2015.

The Department of Justice is pleased to publish this review of Complaints Handling by the Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. The Department commissioned the review in September 2015 and appointed Mr Alasdair MacLaughlin to undertake it.

The Prison Service has published an action plan that will address all the recommendations from the report. 

Commissioned by the Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland; Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons; the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority and the Education and Training Inspectorate.

Welcome to the autumn 2015 edition of the AccessNI Newsletter. 

Statutory guidance for chief officers of police on providing information for inclusion in enhanced criminal record certificates.

This report follows from and builds on the first Access to Justice Report published in 2011.