Martin Partington: Spotlight on the Justice System

The latest edition of Introduction to the English Legal System

The 2019–2020 edition of Introduction to the English System includes coverage of:

• the implications of Brexit
• progress with the Government’s Transformation – Courts and Tribunals reform programme;
• dealing with the vexed questions of prisoners’ voting rights;
• new data on diversity in the judiciary;
• stress in the criminal justice system;
• problems of analysing data on levels of crime in the community;
• changes in the use of stop and search powers by the police;
• reform of the Parole Board;
• reform of the youth criminal justice system;
• the new Victims’ Strategy;
• significant changes to the fees policy for employment tribunals;
• experiements with on-line dispute resolution;
• new ideas for controlling the costs of civil litigation;
• civil justice reform, including reform of the Court of Protection;
• reform of the regulation of claims management companies and the legal professions;
• expansion of alternative busincess structures;
• preventing digital exclusion;
• the ‘innocence tax’;
• changing the routes to professional qualification.

Further changes will be noted in this blog so that you can keep up to date with latest developments