The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has updated its guidance on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) following the implementation of section 17 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 on 1 October 2025. The legislation establishes statutory protections for crime victims in England and Wales, confirming that NDAs cannot validly prevent victims from reporting crimes to police and extending protections to disclosures made to obtain confidential advice or support. Under the new 'Permitted Disclosures' framework, victims who sign NDAs on or after 1 October 2025 may disclose information about relevant criminal conduct to qualified lawyers, regulated professionals including healthcare workers, victim support services, regulators, and close family members for specified purposes. The changes apply only to NDAs signed from 1 October 2025 onwards, with earlier agreements remaining subject to previous rules. The MoJ has now published additional guidance for victims and individuals who use NDAs, explaining the practical implications of these statutory changes for confidentiality agreements across sectors including business, arts, charity, education, healthcare and technology.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published updated guidance for government officials on creating or amending criminal offences and penalties, replacing the former ‘Making new criminal offences’ guidance. The updated document provides an overview of the matters that must be considered before seeking Cabinet Committee approval for the creation or amendment of criminal offences or penalties.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has updated its guidance on the home detention curfew policy framework. The guidance now includes measures from the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, amending various sections including legal requirements (4.1), other requirements (4.2) and eligibility and presumed unsuitability (4.3).

The MoJ (Ministry of Justice) has updated its minutes from the meetings of the Official Injury Claim Advisory Group guidance. The MoJ has added ‘Official Injury Claim (OIC) Advisory Group meetings: 16 April 2024, 1pm to 2:30pm’ to its guidance documents.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has updated the guidance on the Whiplash Reform Programme to note the change in payment of court fees in road traffic accidents related personal injury claims under the new small claims track limit. MoJ has noted that the fees have increased from £275 to £303.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has updated its early release on compassionate grounds policy framework. The policy framework includes the eligibility criteria and process for making an application for early release of a sentenced prisoner, child or young person on compassionate grounds. In its update, the MoJ has amended paragraph 4.17, which does not broaden the policy but gives additional, non-exhaustive examples of illnesses that can be considered under the scheme.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has updated its prison service instruction (PSI) and annexes, IA forms and flowchart under its prison adjudications policy: PSI 05/2018.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has called on individuals entitled to claim dormant funds held by the Court Funds Office (CFO) to claim these funds now as the time to claim is running out. Following recent legislative changes, from 1 June 2024, any account held dormant with the CFO for 30 years or more will be surrendered and future rights to claim will be extinguished. Following this initial deadline, one can still claim any account that has been held by CFO for less than 30 years as normal.

A central point to which base stations of cells in a cluster are connected to, either by landlines or microwave. MTSO is normally located in the central cell of a cluster and is generally connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

A communications provider who provides a mobile retail service via another communications provider’s mobile network.

Mobile virtual network operator. An MVNO is a mobile communications service provider that contracts with a mobile network operator (MNO) for the resale of mobile services. The transaction is a ’white label’ resell, meaning that the end customer has no contact with the underlying MNO.

This Practice Note refers to mobile apps: the software applications that run on mobile devices. Mobile devices include mobile phones, tablets, smart watches and other ‘wearable tech’, and other devices that run apps on an operating system (OS) that acts as a platform onto which apps are built and displayed to the user. This Practice Note: • identifies the main parties in the app lifecycle and sets out the key motivations for the collection of smart device related personal data • discusses the regulatory regime which applies under the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the UK GDPR) as it applies to mobile apps in the UK • analyses the interaction between the UK GDPR regime and UK’s ePrivacy regime applicable to information stored or accessed on devices in the context of mobile apps • explains why particular care must be taken with location data • illustrates practical considerations that app providers should consider for compliance with the UK GDPR regime when developing apps • sets out a checklist