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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• Review laws allowing perpetrators of domestic abuse legal access to children
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  187 signatures

• Revoke Parental Responsibility & Rights from Sexually Abusive Parents
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  179 signatures

• Require prison sentences to be served consecutively, not concurrently
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  909 signatures

• Review and reform the court system to address delays
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  40 signatures

• Child contact with parent arrested/bailed for domestic abuse to be supervised
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  33 signatures

• Suspend parental rights when arrested on suspicion of murdering the child
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  560 signatures

• Repeal the Human Rights Act 1998
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  290 signatures

• Abolish the sentencing council and revoke its sentencing guidelines
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  66 signatures

• Remove parental responsibility from parents with criminal records
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  28 signatures

• Increase max sentence for injury caused due to dangerous driving to 10 years
  Open from Wednesday 23rd April 2025 to Thursday 23rd October 2025
  591 signatures

• Automatic Deputyship to parents once child with disabilities turns 18
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  189 signatures

• Repeal all law of EU origin from UK law completely
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  137 signatures

• Ban divorce settlements granting rights to financial assets to domestic abusers
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  69 signatures

• Remove parental responsibility from convicted perpetrators of domestic violence.
  Open from Monday 14th April 2025 to Tuesday 14th October 2025
  82 signatures

• Extend the Victims Right to Review Scheme for Victims of Domestic Abuse
  Open from Wednesday 9th April 2025 to Thursday 9th October 2025
  45 signatures

• Life sentence for death by dangerous driving
  Open from Wednesday 9th April 2025 to Thursday 9th October 2025
  75 signatures

• Reform Money Claim Court paper process and waive some fees
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  50 signatures

• Increase funding for mediation and arbitration in family courts
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  188 signatures

• Make sentences for re-offending violent youths the same as adults
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  111 signatures

• Notify new parents of partner's criminal record when registering birth
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  37 signatures

• Review communication about "collect and pay" fees for Child Maintenance
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  38 signatures

• Stop Child Maintenance if parents are denied access to their children
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  221 signatures

• Stop self-employed parents from using the CMS
  Open from Wednesday 2nd April 2025 to Thursday 2nd October 2025
  22 signatures

• Require inquests into the death of a child by suicide to be private
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  3,030 signatures

• Require all Family Law Professionals to have training on neurodivergence
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  67 signatures

• Fund more support for fathers in family courts
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  132 signatures

• Review how cases involving domestic violence are assigned to court location
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  34 signatures

• Triple government spending on expanding prison capacity
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  35 signatures

• Name people under 18 who are found guilty of murder
  Open from Wednesday 19th March 2025 to Friday 19th September 2025
  79 signatures

• Give parents who split up automatic 50/50 shared care of their children
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  388 signatures

• Introduce military service sentences for carrying a bladed weapon
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  43 signatures

• Introduce mandatory life sentences for child sex offences
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  2,325 signatures

• Review and reform Cafcass to address systemic failings and protect families
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  245 signatures

• Reform the processes of arranging a funeral / collecting ashes
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  107 signatures

• Introduce whole life tariffs for under 18s who commit murder
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  149 signatures

• Fund Child Contact Centre visits for parents
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  211 signatures

• Review how the legal system and police treat abuse cases
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  129 signatures

• Require magistrates courts to record court hearings so there is a record
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  52 signatures

• Ban cousin marriages
  Open from Thursday 6th March 2025 to Saturday 6th September 2025
  580 signatures

• Automatically disclose a violent offender’s history to a partner
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  86 signatures

• Ban prisoner segregation for periods of more than 15 days
  Open from Friday 28th February 2025 to Thursday 28th August 2025
  5,838 signatures

• Bring back the death penalty for homicide of a child
  Open from Friday 28th February 2025 to Thursday 28th August 2025
  141 signatures

• Transfer all child sex offenders and child murderers overseas
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  37 signatures

• Provide an exact number of prisoners who have murdered children aged under 16
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  26 signatures

• Remove all electronic devices from paedophiles and child murderers' prison cells
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  92 signatures

• Child against parent violence to be recognised as domestic abuse & more support
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  186 signatures

• Review and reform child custody arrangements
  Open from Monday 24th February 2025 to Sunday 24th August 2025
  321 signatures

• Create a new body to record and resolve local noise nuisances
  Open from Monday 24th February 2025 to Sunday 24th August 2025
  116 signatures

• Make vandalism and theft of vans a specific offence
  Open from Monday 24th February 2025 to Sunday 24th August 2025
  70 signatures

• Introduce maintenance payments from third parties that contribute to divorce.
  Open from Friday 21st February 2025 to Thursday 21st August 2025
  109 signatures

• Create an independent Safeguarding Body.
  Open from Thursday 20th February 2025 to Wednesday 20th August 2025
  33 signatures

• Prevent the prosecution of veterans for historical offences.
  Open from Tuesday 18th February 2025 to Monday 18th August 2025
  1,347 signatures

• Don't reduce the number of trials by jury
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  212 signatures

• Do not allow people charged with rape to be released on bail
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  63 signatures

• Review the regulation of solicitors
  Open from Friday 14th February 2025 to Thursday 14th August 2025
  83 signatures

• Ban naming of suspects unless guilt is proven
  Open from Friday 14th February 2025 to Thursday 14th August 2025
  52 signatures

• Public inquiry into the selling of Family Asset Protection Trusts.
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  1,229 signatures

• Give police stronger powers to tackle motorcycle theft & increase penalties
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  6,820 signatures

• Don't allow absent parents to take children from primary care givers
  Open from Wednesday 12th February 2025 to Tuesday 12th August 2025
  30 signatures

• Criminalise "wilfully deceiving the electorate for personal or political gain"
  Open from Tuesday 11th February 2025 to Monday 11th August 2025
  115 signatures

• Hold a referendum on restoring the Death Penalty for murder
  Open from Friday 7th February 2025 to Thursday 7th August 2025
  818 signatures

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Open from Wednesday 5th February 2025 to Tuesday 5th August 2025
  691 signatures

• Ban publishing information about people accused of crimes until proven guilty
  Open from Tuesday 4th February 2025 to Monday 4th August 2025
  53 signatures

• Lower the age that someone can be considered a victim of domestic abuse
  Open from Tuesday 4th February 2025 to Monday 4th August 2025
  1,415 signatures

• Reinstate legal aid in all areas
  Open from Friday 31st January 2025 to Thursday 31st July 2025
  96 signatures

• Introduce a trained jury
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  30 signatures

• Review how law handles tool theft
  Open from Tuesday 28th January 2025 to Monday 28th July 2025
  63 signatures

• Review of compensation for those wrongfully imprisoned
  Open from Tuesday 28th January 2025 to Monday 28th July 2025
  36 signatures

• Compulsory immediate prison sentences for people convicted of rape
  Open from Monday 27th January 2025 to Sunday 27th July 2025
  189 signatures

• Give courts powers to order local authorities to fund family therapy
  Open from Friday 24th January 2025 to Thursday 24th July 2025
  88 signatures

• Review funding for our police services
  Open from Friday 24th January 2025 to Thursday 24th July 2025
  168 signatures

• Ban cross-examination of victims of sexual abuse
  Open from Thursday 23rd January 2025 to Wednesday 23rd July 2025
  67 signatures

• Review the criminal justice system.
  Open from Tuesday 21st January 2025 to Monday 21st July 2025
  108 signatures

• Ban on knife possession except for licensed/trade purposes & increase sentences
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  126 signatures

• All nannies, tutors and babysitters to have an enhanced DBS check.
  Open from Wednesday 15th January 2025 to Tuesday 15th July 2025
  485 signatures

• Deport all foreign criminals with effect immediately.
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  6,844 signatures

• Reinstate release of certain serious offenders half-way through their sentence
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  12,370 signatures

• Make it a crime to purposely delay ringing the emergency services
  Open from Friday 10th January 2025 to Thursday 10th July 2025
  10,384 signatures

• Require All Family Law Professionals to have Training about Domestic Abuse
  Open from Friday 10th January 2025 to Thursday 10th July 2025
  147 signatures

• Improve the family court system by abolishing Cafcass completely
  Open from Tuesday 7th January 2025 to Monday 7th July 2025
  58 signatures

• Introduce juries in family courts
  Open from Monday 6th January 2025 to Sunday 6th July 2025
  68 signatures

• Allow conjugal visits for prisoners in England and Wales
  Open from Thursday 19th December 2024 to Thursday 19th June 2025
  1,948 signatures

• Criminalise individuals for discrimination against disabled employees in UK.
  Open from Monday 16th December 2024 to Monday 16th June 2025
  70 signatures

• Hold a referendum to decide if the UK should leave the ECHR.
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  21,702 signatures

• Legally require unanimous jury verdicts for serious offences.
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  285 signatures

• Make it a legal offence for a parent to be absent from their child's life.
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  77 signatures

• Hold a public inquiry into the work of the Family Courts
  Open from Friday 29th November 2024 to Thursday 29th May 2025
  229 signatures

• Restrict the use of disclaimers by police to relinquish ownership of dogs
  Open from Wednesday 27th November 2024 to Tuesday 27th May 2025
  123 signatures

• Remove the 28 day time limit from the unduly lenient sentence scheme for murder
  Open from Wednesday 6th November 2024 to Tuesday 6th May 2025
  14,062 signatures

• Decriminalise Abortion
  Open from Monday 4th November 2024 to Sunday 4th May 2025
  103,648 signatures

• Allow 'Paper Abortions' so fathers can opt out of parenthood during pregnancy
  Open from Friday 17th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  14 signatures

• Make it a specific crime for members of the public to pose as a child online
  Open from Wednesday 15th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  21 signatures

• Introduce new age restrictions regarding sexual activity
  Open from Tuesday 7th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  20 signatures

• Review youth sentencing and justice
  Open from Friday 3rd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  21 signatures

• Create right of appeal against jury verdict if trial uses only certain evidence
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  453 signatures

• Review Ofsted's report on CAFCASS
  Open from Thursday 25th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  538 signatures

• Statutory inquiry into allegations against parents of neurodiverse children
  Open from Tuesday 23rd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  156 signatures

• Require family court proceedings initiated by public services be held in public
  Open from Monday 15th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  57 signatures

• Stop allowing criminals to appeal their sentences
  Open from Wednesday 10th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  34 signatures

• Impose 30 Year Minimum Sentence Without Parole for Child Murderers
  Open from Tuesday 9th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  501 signatures

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