Justice & Home Affairs

Courts programme boosts justice department's consultants bill

New system of follow-up reviews will update ministers on progress with improving worst prisons 

Calls to advice lines for child support and probate services "do not generate revenue", minister says

Prisons minister says state "better placed" to retain control of HMP Birmingham after stepping in last year

Probation services would be 'safer' under public ownership, chief inspector says

MPs say department has overseen seriously unacceptable practice in almost every area of the deportation system

Report calls for 'complete rethink of the structure, funding and oversight of forensic science'

Jon Thompson warns “that tone of some of the debate around the loan charge, and the spreading of unconfirmed rumours, risks creating additional concern for vulnerable customers”

Right to rent checks have “little to no effect” on controlling immigration, says judge in High Court case

Watchdog says payment-by-results model will cost department at least £467m more than projected and has not delivered results

Justin Russell previously oversaw the MoJ's prisons, offender and youth justice policy

Troubled eight-year project reaches fruition as technology is to be deployed nationwide in the coming months