Debate Pack
Legal aid and the post-implementation review
A Westminster Hall debate on Legal aid and the post-implementation review is to take place on Tuesday 4 September 2018 at 6.30pm. The Member leading the debate is Karen Buck MP.
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Debate Pack
Estimates day: Ministry of Justice spending
Overview of MoJ spending with detailed statistics on prisons and probation, courts, and legal aid.
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Debate Pack
Treatment of adults with autism by the criminal justice system
A Westminster Hall debate on Treatment of adults with autism by the criminal justice system is scheduled for Tuesday 30 January 2018 at 2.30pm. The Member leading the debate is Kevin Brennan MP.
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Research Briefing
Employment tribunal fees
Employment tribunal fees were introduced in July 2013, and declared unlawful by the Supreme Court in July 2017.
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Research Briefing
Prisons and Courts Statistics, England and Wales
This paper provides background statistics on prisons and courts in England and Wales ahead of the Second Reading of the Prisons and Courts Bill 2016-17. Commons Library Briefing Paper SN04334: Prison Population Statistics (currently being updated) explores prison population data for England and Wales in more depth and includes data for the rest of the UK.
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Debate Pack
Access to Justice
This Commons Library debate pack has been prepared for the Westminster Hall debate on access to justice on Wednesday 11 January 2017. The debate has been tabled by Rob Marris MP.
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Research Briefing
Court and tribunal closures
This briefing paper analyses court and tribunal closures in England and Wales.
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Research Briefing
Litigants in person: the rise of the self-represented litigant in civil and family cases in England and Wales
The available evidence indicates that the proportion of litigants appearing before the civil and family courts in England and Wales without legal representation (litigants in person, also sometimes called self-represented litigants) has increased since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 took many civil and private law children and family cases out of scope for legal aid from 1 April 2013. What does this mean, both for the litigants and for the courts?
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Research Briefing
Criminal Cases Review Commission
The CCRC was created to prevent a repeat of the notorious miscarriages of justice of the 1970s and 1980s.This Commons briefing paper provides an overview of the commission's approach to applications, its history and of the debate as to whether it is fit for purpose.
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Debate Pack
Access to Justice in Wales
A Westminster Hall debate on access to justice in Wales has been scheduled for Tuesday 15 December 2015 at 1630hrs. The member in charge of the debate is Carolyn Harris.
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Research Briefing
Criminal Cases Review Commission (Information) Bill
This Commons Library Briefing gives an overview of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Information) Bill which would provide for an extension of the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s powers to obtain information to aid its inquiries.
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Research Briefing
Confidentiality and openness in the family courts: current rules and history of their reform
This briefing paper considers transparency in the family courts, including communication of information and media attendance, and background on recent changes in this area.
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Research Briefing
Protocol No.15 to the European Convention on Human Rights: subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation
This note looks briefly at the Brighton reform conference in 2012 and reforms implemented before and since. It considers two of the reforms in Protocol 15 that the UK Government particularly wanted, in the light of the European Court of Human Rights judgments in Hirst and Abu Qatada, concerning subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation.
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Research Briefing
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill: Commons stages
The Criminal Justice and Courts Bill 2013-14 had its second reading on 24 February 2014 and was carried over to 2014-15 session. Library Research Paper 14/8 The Criminal Justice and Courts Bill provides background on the proposals in the Bill. There are four parts covering criminal justice, including offences relating to extreme pornographic images and release and recall of prisoners, young offenders, secure colleges and youth cautions, changes to courts and tribunals, including strict liability and jury misconduct, and judicial review changes, which attracted much written and oral evidence.
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