CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM

Criminal Justice System Reform

Criminal Justice System Reform

Introduction

The ministry of Justice United Kingdom published a structural reform plan in July 2010. This plan introduced rehabilitation revolution to the sentencing policy. The main focus of the policy was the introduction to strategy that will reduce reoffending. It planned to destroy the cycle of crime and protect the public through better and efficient methods for rehabilitation of offenders and reforming the framework of sentencing.

The plan from its intention to its implementation is new in the sense that it endeavors to make the sort of penalties and punishment same but only some alterations are there plus a deep focus on rehabilitation. The basic idea is to safe the society from such lethal crimes, criminals and save the gigantic amount of public money that is spent on them through effective management.

United Kingdom Justice System

The Lord Chancellor is the head of the judiciary in England and Wales. He appoints judges and magistrates in the criminal courts on formal sanction of the Sovereign. The Lord Chancellor is present in all three branches of government, hold a position in ' executive in the legislative and therefore in the judiciary, and certainly represents an exception among all the liberal democracies of the world today (Bailyn 1967, 25). However, the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005 (the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) removes many of the powers held by the Lord cancelation and entrusts them to other members of the British government and first to the Minister for Constitutional affairs.

The legal system for England and Wales (there are separate ones for Scotland and Northern Ireland), does not have a criminal or civil code, but is based on two basic elements

Written law (statute) represented by the laws enacted by Parliament (Act of Parliament) and published in the Statute Book (Currie 1994, 45).

Common law, consisting of judicial decisions, customs and habits, named to distinguish it from special rights such as the Roman or canon law. Almost all of the criminal law is now provided by law (Act of Parliament), while the majority of civil law still depends on the common law.

For criminal cases, there are two main types of courts:

which involved about 95% of cases;

Crown Courts (Court) for more serious crimes.

For civil cases such as, issues of family, property, contracts, etc. At the apex of the judicial system is the High Court of Justice (High Court) which deals with more complex cases. It is divided into three sections:

Queen's Bench, which deals with contracts and tort, maritime and commercial law (Dorsen et al. 2003 , 75)

the Chancery Division, which deals with corporate and personal bankruptcy;

The Family Division, which deals with divorce, adoption, etc.

There are 400 Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales, served by approximately 30,000 magistrates or justices of the peace (ordinary citizens appointed by the Lord Chancellor, but chosen by the community, similar to our judges' fees).

A Crown Court is presided over by a judge but the verdict is reached by a ...