Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Robert Buckland Excerpts
Tuesday 15th May 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jonathan Djanogly Portrait Mr Djanogly
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It is very important to emphasise that the position for someone suffering from domestic violence remains absolutely unchanged—they will be able to get on-the-spot injunctive relief and that will be non-means-tested.

Robert Buckland Portrait Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon) (Con)
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T6. I warmly welcome the development of neighbourhood justice panels, and pilots are being developed in areas such as my constituency in Swindon. They should be dealing with low-level crimes in our community, but what interplay will there be between those panels and the role of the magistracy in our communities?