Links

Listed below are several informative legal sites you may find useful:

www.courtservice.gov.uk

The Court Service is an executive agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department, which has its own website. This covers policy, legislation and the Magistrates' courts. The purpose of the Court Service is the delivery of justice.


www.cps.gov.uk

The CPS is the Government Department which prosecutes people in England and Wales who have been charged by the police with a criminal offence.


www.legalservices.gov.uk

The Legal Services Commission is an executive non-departmental public body created under the Access to Justice Act 1999 to replace the Legal Aid Board.


www.hri.ca/welcome.cfm

HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organisations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society.


www.duhaime.org/diction.htm

An On-line Legal Dictionary; researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge by Canadian lawyer Lloyd Duhaime.


www.justask.org.uk

If you need information on a legal problem, Just Ask! is the website of the Community Legal Service, providing legal help and information in England and Wales.

www.adviceguide.org.uk/nacab/plsql/nacab.homepage

Citizens Advice Bureaux’s Adviceguide site gives basic advice and information on your rights. It gives you a broad outline of where you stand and what you can do.

www.lawsociety.org.uk

The Law Society is the professional body for solicitors in England and Wales

www.scandals.org

Scandals in Justice Magazine

www.nacro.org.uk

Nacro is the crime reduction charity. Since 1966 Nacro has worked to give ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities the help they need to build a better future.

www.c-far.org.uk

The Centre for Adolescent Rehabilitation