Publications

An interim report by the Prison Review Team into the conditions, management and oversight of all prisons.

The VBS had been created to help safeguard children and vulnerable adults, following the Bichard Inquiry and was designed to check the records of those who wanted to work with vulnerable groups.

Minister of Justice David Ford MLA makes a statement to the Assembly on the progress that has been made against the actions set out in Section One of the Hillsborough Agreement of February 2010, entitled Policing and Justice.

This guidance is for applicants for civil legal aid and explains what you might have to pay towards your legal aid if you win or keep money or property as a result of your case.

The proposal for this modest change to the law to make offenders from jurisdictions outside the UK automatically obliged to notify their personal details to the police within three days of arrival in Northern Ireland was requested by the police, largely in the context of coope

A consultation on an Equality Impact Assessment for a proposed Justice Bill 2010 was launched on 12 August 2010. The 12-week consultation was due to close on 4 November but was extended to 24 November at the request of several stakeholders to facilitate their responses.

This Statement is issued in conformance with the requirements set out in Principle 5 of
the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
 

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 the perceived level of harm caused by organised crime. 

For applicants of civil legal aid to explain what you might have to pay towards your legal aid, if you win or keep money or property as a result of your case.

Legal representatives will be aware that the Commission had “restated” the exemptions which updated obsolete legislative references contained in Regulation 17(9)(a) and (f) which refer to family legislation and social security benefits. 

This bulletin draws on findings from the 2009/10 Northern Ireland Crime Survey (NICS), a representative, continuous, personal interview survey of the experiences and perceptions of crime of 4,102 adults living in private households throughout Northern Ireland. 

This strategy is about building on existing practical and strategic co-operation, and identifying a number of key strands of work where both Services feel that co-operation and supporting legislation can become even stronger.

This bulletin draws on findings from the 2009/10 Northern Ireland Crime Survey (NICS), a representative, continuous, personal interview survey of the experiences and perceptions of crime of 4,102 adults living in private households throughout Northern Ireland. 

This bulletin documents the results from a self-reporting module on drug misuse from the 2008/09 Northern Ireland Crime Survey (NICS).

This report contains two papers; the first looks at the cost of crime to the Northern Ireland economy and the second examines possible ways of assessing how these costs of crime impact directly on government departments.

The consultation paper set out proposals for the introduction of a statutory offender levy system to Northern Ireland, involving the imposition of a monetary sum on certain sentences handed down by the courts and on voluntarily accepted non-court based penalties, such as fixed

This review was initiated on 30th June by the Director of Operations (NIPS). The Ombudsman investigated two representative cases arising from complaints in relation to Roe House Maghaberry.

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 the perceived level of harm caused by organised crime.

Statutory special measures to assist vulnerable and intimidated witnesses give their best evidence in criminal proceedings.

This guide explains what restorative justice is and demonstrates how it has impacted upon young people who have had the experience of taking part in it.