Category: consultations
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Responses to the Judiciary’s Transparency & Open Justice Board Proposed Objectives
Back in December, the Judiciary’s Transparency and Open Justice Board asked for views on its proposed objectives (which had been promised in the earlier Terms of Reference for the Board). Members of the Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network have responded and we are sharing some of our submissions here, plus…
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End of year open justice updates
Four important developments to note here, as we approach the end of 2024. First: Spotlight on Corruption (a founding member of this network) won a major open justice precedent in a case involving allegations of Ministry of Defence cover up and collusion in a defence bribery scheme in Saudi Arabia – for the first time in…
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What happened to the Government’s 2023 consultation on open justice?
Back in September 2023, many members of this network provided written submissions to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on open justice. We collected and published some of them on this site. Every so often, we ask each other whether anyone has heard anything more, but no-one has. Obviously, there has…
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A joint submission to the MoJ consultation on open justice
In response to the House of Commons Justice committee report on open justice, and the susequent Ministry of Justice consultation, an ad hoc group of court and tribunal observers assembled to discuss ideas in meetings and virtually. We made the following collective submission, in addition to individual submissions in other…
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