Chapter 3 Links to useful websites

The Courts and Tribunals

• Collection of criminal court statistics from the Ministry of Justice.
• Collection of family court statistics from the Ministry of Justice
• Collection of civil justice statistics from the Ministry of Justice
• The Ministry of Justice website maintains pages with links to recent and historical court statistics, mainly about the workload of the courts and tribunals systems. The annual statistics should suffice for most research. Annual statistics are normally in the April-June edition. Find Statistics up to 2014.
• The Ministry of Justice’s website provides links to illuminating publications and research, for instance, Are Juries Fair? (Cheryl Thomas) mentioned at 3.3.1.  
• The main website provides information about court procedure among many other issues:
• The Civil Procedure Rules
• The Criminal Procedure Rules
• The Family Procedure Rules
• The UK Supreme Court maintains its own website, with information for lawyers, litigants, students and public.  
• The Privy Council also have a website
• Information about the ECJ and ECHR

The Crown Prosecution Service

• The Crown Prosecution website provides information for lawyers, victims, witnesses, etc. and includes the CPS Code, and news. Their Annual Report, as well as giving information about the CPS itself, gives statistics about its caseload. 

Judicial Inquiries

• Some recent inquiries need to be researched separately, e.g. The Chilcott Inquiry and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

Justice Reforms

• Access to Justice: 
  Lord Woolf’s Access to Justice Report of 1996. This is still valuable reading for anyone interested in the ethos of the reform of court procedure. 
• The Jackson Reforms: 
  The Jackson Reforms of 2013 are part of a wider movement towards further reform of access to justice