Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice is a major government department, at the heart of the justice system. We work to protect and advance the principles of justice. Our vision is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society. MOJ is a ministerial department, supported by 35 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice

Ministers

• Alex Chalk KC MP
  Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
• The Rt Hon Edward Argar MP
  Minister of State
• The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP
  Minister of State
• Mike Freer MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
• Lord Bellamy KC
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Petitions linked to this department

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• Non-molestation orders to be heard in magistrate or crown court not family court
  Opened on Friday 16th May 2025
  8 signatures so far

• Create new background checks for jurors on sexual or domestic abuse trials
  Opened on Thursday 15th May 2025
  33 signatures so far

• Exclude pre-marriage assets from divorce settlements in England and Wales
  Opened on Thursday 15th May 2025
  25 signatures so far

• Require confirmation of next of kin in writing and legally recognise wishes
  Opened on Wednesday 14th May 2025
  15 signatures so far

• Capital punishment for officials guilty of treason, corruption, misconduct
  Opened on Tuesday 13th May 2025
  436 signatures so far

• Review & Reform the Probation Service, apologise & enshrine Victims Code in law
  Opened on Tuesday 13th May 2025
  223 signatures so far

• Make the climate emergency a lawful excuse in criminal cases
  Opened on Tuesday 13th May 2025
  335 signatures so far

• Criminalise all coercive or controlling behaviour
  Opened on Monday 12th May 2025
  17 signatures so far

• Fund stab vests as standard PPE for all prison officers
  Opened on Monday 12th May 2025
  132 signatures so far

• Review the way the criminal justice system supports male victims
  Opened on Monday 12th May 2025
  21 signatures so far

• Ban prisoners and violent ex-convicts working in slaughterhouses
  Opened on Wednesday 7th May 2025
  18 signatures so far

• Government to do more to protect victims of false allegations
  Opened on Tuesday 6th May 2025
  89 signatures so far

• Reduce the minimum retirement age for Prison Officers to 60
  Opened on Tuesday 6th May 2025
  1,819 signatures so far

• Review laws allowing perpetrators of domestic abuse legal access to children
  Opened on Thursday 1st May 2025
  125 signatures so far

• Revoke Parental Responsibility & Rights from Sexually Abusive Parents
  Opened on Thursday 1st May 2025
  45 signatures so far

• Require prison sentences to be served consecutively, not concurrently
  Opened on Wednesday 30th April 2025
  648 signatures so far

• Review and reform the court system to address delays
  Opened on Wednesday 30th April 2025
  31 signatures so far

• Child contact with parent arrested/bailed for domestic abuse to be supervised
  Opened on Tuesday 29th April 2025
  20 signatures so far

• Suspend parental rights when arrested on suspicion of murdering the child
  Opened on Monday 28th April 2025
  118 signatures so far

• Repeal the Human Rights Act 1998
  Opened on Monday 28th April 2025
  64 signatures so far

• Abolish the sentencing council and revoke its sentencing guidelines
  Opened on Friday 25th April 2025
  47 signatures so far

• Remove parental responsibility from parents with criminal records
  Opened on Thursday 24th April 2025
  26 signatures so far

• Increase max sentence for injury caused due to dangerous driving to 10 years
  Opened on Wednesday 23rd April 2025
  495 signatures so far

• Automatic Deputyship to parents once child with disabilities turns 18
  Opened on Tuesday 22nd April 2025
  171 signatures so far

• Repeal all law of EU origin from UK law completely
  Opened on Thursday 17th April 2025
  76 signatures so far

• Ban divorce settlements granting rights to financial assets to domestic abusers
  Opened on Thursday 17th April 2025
  51 signatures so far

• Remove parental responsibility from convicted perpetrators of domestic violence.
  Opened on Monday 14th April 2025
  58 signatures so far

• Extend the Victims Right to Review Scheme for Victims of Domestic Abuse
  Opened on Wednesday 9th April 2025
  39 signatures so far

• Life sentence for death by dangerous driving
  Opened on Wednesday 9th April 2025
  36 signatures so far

• Reform Money Claim Court paper process and waive some fees
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  47 signatures so far

• Increase funding for mediation and arbitration in family courts
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  180 signatures so far

• Make sentences for re-offending violent youths the same as adults
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  64 signatures so far

• Notify new parents of partner's criminal record when registering birth
  Opened on Monday 7th April 2025
  29 signatures so far

• Review communication about "collect and pay" fees for Child Maintenance
  Opened on Friday 4th April 2025
  35 signatures so far

• Stop Child Maintenance if parents are denied access to their children
  Opened on Friday 4th April 2025
  112 signatures so far

• Stop self-employed parents from using the CMS
  Opened on Wednesday 2nd April 2025
  15 signatures so far

• Require inquests into the death of a child by suicide to be private
  Opened on Tuesday 1st April 2025
  2,335 signatures so far

• Require all Family Law Professionals to have training on neurodivergence
  Opened on Friday 28th March 2025
  52 signatures so far

• Fund more support for fathers in family courts
  Opened on Friday 28th March 2025
  108 signatures so far

• Review how cases involving domestic violence are assigned to court location
  Opened on Tuesday 25th March 2025
  29 signatures so far

• Triple government spending on expanding prison capacity
  Opened on Monday 24th March 2025
  29 signatures so far

• Name people under 18 who are found guilty of murder
  Opened on Wednesday 19th March 2025
  57 signatures so far

• Give parents who split up automatic 50/50 shared care of their children
  Opened on Tuesday 18th March 2025
  195 signatures so far

• Introduce military service sentences for carrying a bladed weapon
  Opened on Tuesday 18th March 2025
  37 signatures so far

• Introduce mandatory life sentences for child sex offences
  Opened on Tuesday 18th March 2025
  612 signatures so far

• Review and reform Cafcass to address systemic failings and protect families
  Opened on Friday 14th March 2025
  196 signatures so far

• Reform the processes of arranging a funeral / collecting ashes
  Opened on Thursday 13th March 2025
  105 signatures so far

• Introduce whole life tariffs for under 18s who commit murder
  Opened on Thursday 13th March 2025
  137 signatures so far

• Fund Child Contact Centre visits for parents
  Opened on Wednesday 12th March 2025
  209 signatures so far

• Review how the legal system and police treat abuse cases
  Opened on Wednesday 12th March 2025
  123 signatures so far

• Require magistrates courts to record court hearings so there is a record
  Opened on Friday 7th March 2025
  48 signatures so far

• Ban cousin marriages
  Opened on Thursday 6th March 2025
  260 signatures so far

• Automatically disclose a violent offender’s history to a partner
  Opened on Wednesday 5th March 2025
  78 signatures so far

• Ban prisoner segregation for periods of more than 15 days
  Opened on Friday 28th February 2025
  5,773 signatures so far

• Bring back the death penalty for homicide of a child
  Opened on Friday 28th February 2025
  77 signatures so far

• Transfer all child sex offenders and child murderers overseas
  Opened on Thursday 27th February 2025
  33 signatures so far

• Provide an exact number of prisoners who have murdered children aged under 16
  Opened on Thursday 27th February 2025
  23 signatures so far

• Remove all electronic devices from paedophiles and child murderers' prison cells
  Opened on Thursday 27th February 2025
  72 signatures so far

• Child against parent violence to be recognised as domestic abuse & more support
  Opened on Tuesday 25th February 2025
  176 signatures so far

• Review and reform child custody arrangements
  Opened on Monday 24th February 2025
  214 signatures so far

• Create a new body to record and resolve local noise nuisances
  Opened on Monday 24th February 2025
  90 signatures so far

• Make vandalism and theft of vans a specific offence
  Opened on Monday 24th February 2025
  67 signatures so far

• Introduce maintenance payments from third parties that contribute to divorce.
  Opened on Friday 21st February 2025
  60 signatures so far

• Create an independent Safeguarding Body.
  Opened on Thursday 20th February 2025
  33 signatures so far

• Prevent the prosecution of veterans for historical offences.
  Opened on Tuesday 18th February 2025
  209 signatures so far

• Don't reduce the number of trials by jury
  Opened on Monday 17th February 2025
  73 signatures so far

• Do not allow people charged with rape to be released on bail
  Opened on Monday 17th February 2025
  53 signatures so far

• Review the regulation of solicitors
  Opened on Friday 14th February 2025
  74 signatures so far

• Ban naming of suspects unless guilt is proven
  Opened on Friday 14th February 2025
  43 signatures so far

• Public inquiry into the selling of Family Asset Protection Trusts.
  Opened on Thursday 13th February 2025
  1,204 signatures so far

• Give police stronger powers to tackle motorcycle theft & increase penalties
  Opened on Thursday 13th February 2025
  5,708 signatures so far

• Don't allow absent parents to take children from primary care givers
  Opened on Wednesday 12th February 2025
  27 signatures so far

• Criminalise "wilfully deceiving the electorate for personal or political gain"
  Opened on Tuesday 11th February 2025
  105 signatures so far

• Hold a referendum on restoring the Death Penalty for murder
  Opened on Friday 7th February 2025
  645 signatures so far

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Opened on Wednesday 5th February 2025
  559 signatures so far

• Ban publishing information about people accused of crimes until proven guilty
  Opened on Tuesday 4th February 2025
  52 signatures so far

• Lower the age that someone can be considered a victim of domestic abuse
  Opened on Tuesday 4th February 2025
  1,285 signatures so far

• Reinstate legal aid in all areas
  Opened on Friday 31st January 2025
  87 signatures so far

• Introduce a trained jury
  Opened on Thursday 30th January 2025
  28 signatures so far

• Review how law handles tool theft
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  60 signatures so far

• Review of compensation for those wrongfully imprisoned
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  34 signatures so far

• Compulsory immediate prison sentences for people convicted of rape
  Opened on Monday 27th January 2025
  167 signatures so far

• Give courts powers to order local authorities to fund family therapy
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  86 signatures so far

• Review funding for our police services
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  165 signatures so far

• Ban cross-examination of victims of sexual abuse
  Opened on Thursday 23rd January 2025
  62 signatures so far

• Review the criminal justice system.
  Opened on Tuesday 21st January 2025
  97 signatures so far

• Ban on knife possession except for licensed/trade purposes & increase sentences
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  110 signatures so far

• All nannies, tutors and babysitters to have an enhanced DBS check.
  Opened on Wednesday 15th January 2025
  465 signatures so far

• Deport all foreign criminals with effect immediately.
  Opened on Tuesday 14th January 2025
  5,544 signatures so far

• Reinstate release of certain serious offenders half-way through their sentence
  Opened on Tuesday 14th January 2025
  12,343 signatures so far

• Make it a crime to purposely delay ringing the emergency services
  Opened on Friday 10th January 2025
  7,561 signatures so far

• Require All Family Law Professionals to have Training about Domestic Abuse
  Opened on Friday 10th January 2025
  145 signatures so far

• Improve the family court system by abolishing Cafcass completely
  Opened on Tuesday 7th January 2025
  47 signatures so far

• Introduce juries in family courts
  Opened on Monday 6th January 2025
  34 signatures so far

• Allow conjugal visits for prisoners in England and Wales
  Opened on Thursday 19th December 2024
  1,870 signatures so far

• Criminalise individuals for discrimination against disabled employees in UK.
  Opened on Monday 16th December 2024
  68 signatures so far

• Hold a referendum to decide if the UK should leave the ECHR.
  Opened on Wednesday 11th December 2024
  17,625 signatures so far

• Legally require unanimous jury verdicts for serious offences.
  Opened on Wednesday 11th December 2024
  284 signatures so far

• Make it a legal offence for a parent to be absent from their child's life.
  Opened on Wednesday 11th December 2024
  71 signatures so far

• Hold a public inquiry into the work of the Family Courts
  Opened on Friday 29th November 2024
  221 signatures so far

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