Category: Reports
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Report: Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network workshop
We are pleased to publish our report following the Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network meeting held at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, on 4 June 2025. Our report discusses the developments since the last workshop, and also ongoing challenges faced by court observers. In the morning session, court observers…
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A new report on the Single Justice Procedure
Yesterday (21 July 2025) Transform Justice published a new report that examines the Single Justice Procedure. Below is the report’s preamble. Ten years ago, the Single Justice Procedure (SJP) was introduced to make the magistrates’ courts more efficient. Designed to handle minor offences swiftly and cheaply, it allows cases to…
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MOJ open justice consultation: summary of responses
After a long wait, during which time there was a change in Government, the Ministry of Justice has published a summary of responses to its 2023 consultation on open justice. 131 people (individuals and organisations from a range of professional backgrounds, as well as individual court users) responded. You can…
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Transform Justice: Public access to courts is essential for justice
Author: Transform Justice / CourtWatch London In the past few months, someone who wanted to watch a trial has been ejected from the court, a duty solicitor has allegedly been assaulted by security staff and a lawyer has complained of a security search in which she had her leg felt…
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New reports on access to justice system data
The fortnight has brought, like buses, two new reports relating to justice system data access. First, an update from network member and advisor Paul Magrath, on the publication of listed judgments by the National Archives Find Case Law service, in the final report of ICLR’s research: The National Archives launched…
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