Publications

The purpose of this Corporate Plan is to translate the priorities, as set by the Minister, into a set of objectives and targets for the Department and set out how we will continue to take these forward and deliver on them in 2013/14.

This bulletin presents data on the number of prosecutions and convictions for magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court in Northern Ireland for the year 2014.

Authorises the Director of Legal Aid Casework to decide all applications for exceptional legal aid, under Article 10A of the 1981 Order, in connection with excluded proceedings which are currently pending decision subject to a number of specified conditions.

Analysis of NIPS Prison Population.

An Intergovernmental Agreement on Cooperation on Criminal Justice Matters provides the framework for North/South cooperation in this area.

The overall aim of this research was to enable the Department of Justice to inform itself about the need for legal services for children and young people in Northern Ireland.

This Newsletter provides an update on the changes within AccessNI.

Annual report and accounts for the Youth Justice Agency for the period 2014 to 2015.

Freedom of information request relating to time frames and recommendations for dismissal all staff 2010 to 2015.

The number of compassionate temporary release applications made by prisoners and refusals due to security alerts.

Freedom of information request and disclosure relating to the amount given to the Prison Service Trust by the DOJ, yearly, over the last five years, and how this money is spent.

Under section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the Department is required to have due regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity:

The OCTF undertakes regular threat assessments to identify key and emerging trends and threats and looks at how these may be tackled.

The OCTF does not provide an operational response – that remains with individual law enforcement agencies.

The action plans set the priorities for the next two years to deliver on the Community Safety Strategy. 

The Strategy, ‘Making a Difference’, contains 51 actions to be delivered over a five year period and builds upon many of the recommendations from the Committee for Justice inquiry into the services available to victims and witnesses of crime as well as taking into

Circular LSA 02-15 – Levels of representation will be of interest to practitioners who are seeking prior authority to instruct counsel under representation lower courts (formerly ABWOR) and under representation higher courts (formerly civil legal aid) in civil and family

Freedom of information request relating to the number of prison grade staff who have resigned during the period 1 January 2010 to 12 May 2015.

This Code applies to any search by police officers taking place after midnight on 31 May 2015.

This Code applies to applications for warrants made after midnight on 31 May 2015 and to searches and seizures taking place after midnight on 31 May 2015.

This Code applies to people in police detention after midnight on 31 May 2015 notwithstanding that their period of detention may have been commenced before that time.