New head of courts & tribunals

Susan Acland-Hood has been appointed chief executive of HM Courts & Tribunals Service, where she will lead a programme of reform.

Acland-Hood is currently director of enterprise and growth at HM Treasury, and is responsible for policies on productivity, growth, business, infrastructure, exports, competition and markets, and for energy and transport spending. Previously, she was director of education funding at the Department for Education, overseeing the reform of the capital programme, and she has also worked on home affairs and justice policy at No 10 and in the Home Office.

Kevin Sadler will be her deputy chief executive.

Acland-Hood said: “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver a transformed justice system that is faster, better, and more accessible to all. I have already been impressed by the dedication and commitment of HMCTS’s excellent staff, and I look forward very much to working alongside them to add technology to our powerful and respected traditions, and give us the best justice system in the world.”