Department Of Justice

Case processing times improved across all courts in the year ending April 2020, according to new figures. The Department of Justice has published new statistics on the average case processing time for criminal cases in the Crown and magistrates' courts in Northern Ireland between 1 April 2019 and 31

Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has been elected as Northern Ireland's justice minister after the five main political parties signed up to a deal to restore devolution. Independent unionist MLA Claire Sugden, who held the justice brief from 2016 to 2017, had expressed her interest in resuming the r

Research by two Maynooth University academics into how public confidence in the criminal justice system is measured and influenced in different countries has been published by the Department of Justice. The report by Professor Claire Hamilton and Dr Lynsey Black was commissioned by the Department's

A multi-agency task force last year recovered around £1.4 million under confiscation orders, helped rescue dozens of potential victims of modern slavery, carried out thousands of drug seizures and disrupted more than 70 organised crime gangs. The latest Organised Crime Task Force (OCTF) annual

Hundreds of Department of Justice staff are being moved into new positions over the next five weeks as part of a period of "unprecedented change", according to reports. According to the Irish Examiner, 100 civil servants have already been redeployed and 350 more will be moved in the weeks to come.

The Department of Justice has announced a £200,000 capital funding package for voluntary search and rescue groups in Northern Ireland. The funding is in addition to the revenue funding provided by the Department on an annual basis, which totals £86,000 this year.

The Department of Justice received dozens of letters and emails last year calling for harsher punishment for criminals, usually prompted by media reporting on high-profile trials. The 80 messages, seen by The Irish Times, included calls for the introduction of unpaid prison labour, mandatory sentenc

Major internal reforms to the Department of Justice are on track to be completed by October 2019, according to a new report. The Effectiveness and Renewal Group (ERG) in the Department has published its third report, documenting progress in the fourth quarter of 2018.