Policy paper
Crime and Courts Act 2013, part 2: courts and justice
Court and justice reforms introduced by part 2 will deliver a swifter, more open and effective courts and tribunals system.
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The package of court and justice reforms introduced by part 2 of the Act will deliver a swifter, more open and effective courts and tribunals system, introduce greater transparency in the judicial appointments process, improve judicial diversity, reform community and non-custodial sentencing, establish a new system for exemplary damages and costs and who they will apply too, provide additional safeguards in the UK’s extradition arrangements, amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and establish a new tool to tackle economic crime, namely Deferred Prosecution Agreements.
- Return to the main page of the Crime and Courts Act
Useful documents
- proposals for broadcasting selected courts proceedingscan be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages
- an impact assessment and equality impact assessment covering the Ministry of Justice’s reforms to the judicial appointments process can be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages alongside the government’s response to the recent consultation ‘Appointments and Diversity: A Judiciary for the 21st Century’
- an impact assessment and equality impact assessment covering the Ministry of Justice’s reforms to community and non-custodial sentencing can be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages alongside the government’s response to the recent consultation ‘Punishment and Reform: effective community sentences’
- an impact assessment and equality impact assessment covering the establishment of Deferred Prosecution Agreements can be found on the Ministry of Justice’s web-pages alongside the government’s response to the recent consultation on ‘a new enforcement tool to deal with economic crime committed by commercial organisation: Deferred Prosecution Agreement’