Introduction to the English Legal System, 2019-2020 edition
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