The Department

• Department overview
  • Strategies and objectives
  • Departmental reports
  • What does what?
  • Organisation chart

• Ministers
  • Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor
  • Junior Ministers
  • Lord Chancellors: past and present
  • Ministerial speeches
  • Parliamentary statements
• Concordats
  • Scotland
  • Wales
  • Cymru
• Contact
• Your rights - DCA
• Complaints procedures
  • Trefn gwyno pencadlys

 

Publications

• Press notices
• Consultation papers
• Reports and reviews
• Research
  • About DCA research
  • Research reports
  • Research programmes
• Speeches
  • Ministerial speeches
  • Parliamentary statements
  • Speeches by senior judges
• Annual reports
• Legislation
  • Past legislation
• Green papers
• White papers
• Forms and guidance
  • General guidance for individuals
  • Guidance for professionals
• Statistics
• Archive

 

The Legal System

• The courts
  • The court service
  • Court structure
  • Buildings - PPP/PFI
• Tribunals
• The Criminal justice system
• Legal year
  • Term dates
  • Judicial sitting days
• The legal professions
• Legislation
  

 

Getting legal help

• FAQs
• Useful links

 

People's rights

• Human Rights
  • FAQs
  • Contact details
  • Legislation
  • International Human Rights
  • Events
  • Publications
  • Useful links
• Freedom of Information
  • How to use the Act
  • Understanding the Act
  • Implementing the Act
  • Background to the Act
  • Legislation
  • Contact details
  • Useful links
• Data protection
  • FAQs
  • Contact details
  • Legislation
  • European Union
  • The Information Commissioner
  • The Information Tribunal and National Security Appeals Panel
  • Publications
  • Useful links
• Data sharing
  • FAQs
  • Contact details
  • Legislation
  • Publications
  • Useful links
• Elections
  • FAQs
  • Contact details
  • Legislation
  • Electoral administration
  • The electoral process
  • Publications
  • Useful links
• Transsexual people
  • FAQs
  • Contact details
  • Legislation
  • Publications
  • Useful links
• Your rights - DCA
  • Publication scheme
  • Open Government
  • Information Asset Register

Legal Policy

• Family Matters
  • Marriage and relationship support
  • Divorce or separation?
  • Domestic violence
  • Children
• Mental capacity
  • Publications
  • Useful links
• Civil Matters
  • Civil procedure rules
  • Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
  • Enforcement
  • Transsexual people
  • Damages
  • Judgments
• Criminal matters
  • Criminal Justice System
  • Publications
  • Court listings
  • Useful links
• Legal aid
• CFAs and Legal Costs
  • FAQs
  • Contact
  • Legislation
  • Publications
  • Useful Links
• Advisory bodies
• International relations

 

Constitution

• FAQs
• Contact details
• House of lords reform
• Devolution
  • Devolution in the UK
  • Devolution Guidance
  • Joint Ministerial Committees
  • Publications
  • Legislation
  • Useful links
• Crown dependencies
• Royal & hereditary
  • City status
  • Mayoralty & lord provostship
  • Lord lieutenants
• Remembrance Sunday
• Useful links

 

Appointments

• Judicial
  • Current competitions
  • Procedures
  • Equality issues
• Lay Magistrates
  • How to become a magistrate
  • Equality issues
• QCs
  • Competition
  • Appointments made
• Public appointments
• Staff recruitment

 

Judges

• FAQs
• Contact details
• Judges lists
• Judicial statistics
• Appointment process
• Speeches
• Judgments
• Training
• Publications
• Useful links

 

Magistrates

• FAQs
• Contact details
• Appointment procedures
• Magistrates' courts
• Training
• Publications
• Useful links

 

Useful links

• Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor's Organisations
• Government Sites
  • Legal Departments and Agencies
  • Other Government Departments and Agencies
  • Government Inquiries & Inquests
• Crown Dependencies
• Legislative/Constitutional matters
• Legal sites
  • Legal information institutes (LII)
  • United Kingdom & Northern Ireland
  • International