Fundamental to stronger communities is a modern legal framework which commands public confidence and protects people from unfair treatment by the state, by businesses or by other people.
Scotland has its own justice system which is built on traditional values of integrity and fairness, but society has changed over the last two decades. Scotland needs modern justice institutions that have the capacity and flexibility to respond to those changes - while retaining the values on which its reputation has been built. In 2011 we launched the Making Justice Work programme to pull together a range of current and potential reforms to the structure and processes of the justice system, access to justice and alternatives to court.