Secretary of State for Justice

The secretary of state for justice is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Ministry of Justice. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. Since the office's inception in 2007, the incumbent has concurrently been appointed Lord Chancellor.

The officeholder works alongside the other justice ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for justice. The performance of the secretary of state and his department is also scrutinised by the Justice Select Committee.^[3]

Corresponding to what is generally known as a justice minister in many other countries, the justice secretary's remit encompasses justice policy for the whole United Kingdom along with matters of justice specific to England and Wales.

The justice secretary is responsible throughout the UK for:

• Human rights and civil liberties;
• Miscarriages of justice (via the Criminal Cases Review Commission); and
• The UK’s relations with the governments of the three Crown Dependencies - Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man.

In relation to England and Wales, the justice secretary's portfolio concerns the following matters:

• The delivery of criminal justice generally, including criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, probation and parole, criminal injury compensation, and victim's rights;
• All matters falling under civil justice, including but not limited to civil procedure, administrative law, bankruptcy and insolvency law, commercial law, contract law, family law, probate, and tort; and
• Administration of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, the Parole Board, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, the Victims' Commissioner, and the Youth Justice Board.

当時の大法官、ソロトンのファルコナー卿は、2007年に司法大臣が創設された際にその職に任命された。憲法問題担当大臣の職は、憲法問題省とともに廃止された。内務大臣のジョン・リードは議会で、将来の司法大臣は貴族ではなく国会議員になると述べた。

• 2005年憲法改正法
• 大法官

• HMSO発行の憲法問題担当国務長官命令2003
• 法務省公式サイト