header-logo header-logo

LNB NEWS: MoJ announces new guidance for engaging with restorative justice services

08 February 2023
Categories: Legal News , Criminal , Community care
printer mail-detail
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and HM Prison and Probation Service have announced new guidance, ‘Restorative Practice (incorporating Restorative Justice Services) Policy Framework’, applicable for prison and community practitioners when engaging with restorative justice services. 

Lexis®Library update: The MoJ has stated that the aim of this policy framework is to ensure that offender managers, probation practitioners and victim liaison officers understand their responsibilities in the referral and suitability assessment process for engaging with restorative justice services, to support regional commissioning of such services, and to provide guidance on how restorative practice can be incorporated into day-to-day interactions with victims accessing the Victim Contact Scheme and all people on probation or in prison.

The policy framework is accessible here.

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 7 February 2023 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
back-to-top-scroll