This bill proposes amendment to empower the High Court to issue a public protection order to detain a person in a secure facility, when, at the end of a finite prison sentence or subject to the most intensive form of an extended supervision order, they pose a very high risk of imminent and serious sexual or violent reoffending.

This bill seeks to implement the Government's response to the Law Commission's report Review of the Judicature Act 1908: Towards a New Courts Act, plus a number of other related court system changes.

Formerly part of the Objectionable Publications and Indecency Legislation Bill

This Bill makes a number of minor and technical amendments recommended by the Law Commission, following its 2013 review of the Evidence Act 2006.