The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published the summary minutes of the Official Injury Claim (OIC) Advisory Group meeting held on 28 October 2025. The minutes cover updates on Official Injury Claim data and performance, the Whiplash Reform Programme post-implementation review and member feedback, with attendees including the Motor Insurers’ Bureau, HM Courts and Tribunal Service and the Civil Procedure Rule Committee. The meeting confirmed ongoing work to address procedural issues in some courts and system updates to tackle dormancy and improve the professional user experience within the OIC portal. It also confirmed that the next quarterly data release will be issued in January and the next Advisory Group meeting scheduled for April 2026.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published the transcript of the speech delivered by the Lord Chancellor, the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP, as she was sworn in on 15 July 2024 at the Royal Courts of Justice. The Lord Chancellor expressed her gratitude for the new role and her pride in holding the esteemed position as a former barrister; someone who came from a working class background; and as a second generation immigrant.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a policy paper providing a one-year update on its artificial intelligence (AI) Action Plan for Justice and reporting on delivery of the plan published in July 2025. The MoJ has established the Justice AI Unit, a departmental Chief AI Officer, an AI Steering Group and a Risk Working Group, and says its ethics framework requires AI tools to be tested for accuracy, bias, fairness, security and reliability before wider deployment. It has also expanded its ‘AI for All’ programme, which provides staff with access to enterprise AI productivity tools. Justice Transcribe, which transcribes, summarises and structures records from probation supervision sessions and case interactions, has been expanded to more than 12,000 probation officers, staff in Approved Premises and judges in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber).

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published the response to its consultation on 'Implementing increases to selected court and tribunal fees'. The MoJ received 52 responses to the consultation. MoJ reported that the government is of the view that a 10% fee increase would be justified and would reflect changes in the general level of prices. The government noted that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has increased by 17.8% and provides an indicator of the increased costs incurred by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). The government have asserted that the income generated from fee increases could facilitate a more sustainable funding stream and contribute towards delivery of HMCTS services and effectively administered access to justice. The government stated that it is committed to protecting access to justice and that the Help with Fees remissions scheme is available to those with lower financial means. The government has elected to proceed with a 10% fee increase, in line with the CPI, to 172 of the 202 fees originally proposed. The divorce application fee will not be increased nor will 29 further fees as further analysis is still required. The government has also decided to restate the council tax liability order fee under section 180 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 at its current value of £0.50. Additionally, the government has undertaken to update fees every two years to account for changes in cost and the CPI. The next fee review will take place in 2025–2026.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has proposed significant amendments to the Pre-Action Protocol (PAP) for Personal Injury Claims Below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents (RTA Small Claims Protocol), specifically targeting paragraphs 11.7 and 11.8. Developed in response to user feedback and industry consultation, the proposals envisage that the official injury claim (OIC) portal will directly generate the forms currently contained in Protocol annexes C and D, thereby streamlining the process for claiming non-protocol vehicle costs (NVCs). The changes aim to align these forms with other civil forms by enhancing clarity and consistency, particularly in language usage, and include updates to vulnerability information and adjustments reflecting recent changes for limitation-affected claims.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published the latest statistics of the type and volume of civil country court cases that are received and processed through the courts of England and Wales. The statistics also include judicial review cases processed by the High Court and statistics from the Business and Property Courts and biannual privacy injunctions data. The data published is from October to December 2023.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published quashed convictions management information. The information highlights the progress that the government has made by identifying convictions imposed in England and Wales which were quashed by the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024. The information contains the total number of assessments made by the casework team, the number of letters sent to individuals identified as having at least one conviction quashed, the number of individuals confirmed as having no convictions quashed and the number of convictions identified as being quashed.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published an independent report, prepared by Hook Tangaza, which analyses how the liberal structure and regulation of the UK’s legal services market contributes to economic growth and global competitiveness. The report outlines how legal services reform, including new business structures and regulatory changes, has supported sectoral growth, with the legal services market valued at £45.3bn in 2022 and contributing £37bn (1.6%) to UK gross value added (GVA). It further notes that openness and competition promote inward investment and trade, with a £7.6bn trade surplus and 500 UK law firm offices operating globally, while liberalisation continues to encourage innovation through developments such as LawTech and alternative business structures.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a thematic report on digitalisation as part of the overarching HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) Reform Programme evaluation which ran from 2016 to March 2025. The report found that, overall, there is moderate support for digitalisation in delivering a justice system that is just, proportionate and accessible, with stronger support among public users. Digital services were generally seen as convenient and easy to use, enabling public users to self-serve and reducing effort, with improvements in case progression speed across most digital services, though declines were observed in some paper-based processes.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a report presenting the findings of research examining children and families' experiences of the Private Law Pathfinder Courts pilot scheme in the Dorset and North Wales family court areas. The pilot under the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), contained in FPR 2010, PD 12B (Pilot) which is annexed to pilot FPR 2010, PD 36Z, launched in February 2022 and has been expanded to ten court areas including all of Wales, Birmingham, West Yorkshire, the West Midlands and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, suspends the usual Child Arrangements Programme (CAP) and replaces it with a revised process for private family law proceedings. The pilot was designed in response to the Harm Panel report recommendations to reform private law through a problem-solving, investigative approach intended to better support victims of domestic abuse. The research aimed to explore how families' experiences aligned with the pilot's key policy goals and provides evidence on the lived experience of children and families, including those experiencing or at risk of domestic abuse, under the new Pathfinder approach. The report sets out the challenges and benefits of Pathfinder with a view to providing insights and learning for future implementation.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published a response paper to the 2022 consultation on changes to the Qualified One-way Costs Shifting (QOCS) regime in personal injury cases. The MoJ received 33 responses to the consultation, 20 of whom were supportive of the suggested changes to the QOCS regime and 13 were unsupportive of the changes. The government will consider the amendments and recommendations of further requirements.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published its response paper to the July 2023 consultation on issues relating to the new fixed recoverable costs (FRC) regime. The response includes, amongst other matters, that the FRC figures in CPR PD 45, Table 12 and CPR PD 45, Table 14 will be inflated in line with the Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) for the nine months between January and October 2023.