The Lord Chief Justice now decides where judges sit, and the type of cases they hear
Council of Her Majesty's Circuit Judges
Recent Responses to Consultation Papers
Civil
- The Law of Damages
- The Debt Claim Process: Helping people in debt to engage with the problem
- Encouraging Responsible Letting: Law Commission Paper No. 181 [1 October 2007]
- The Governance of Britain: Judicial Appointments
- Housing: Proportionate Dispute Resolution - The Role of Tribunals
- Justice Outside London: Report of Judicial Working Group [20 january 2008]
- Review of Part 6 of the Civil Procedure Rules: Service of Documents [3 October 2007]
- The Judicial Training Strategy: Judicial Education For The Circuit And District Benches [13 January 2008]
Crime
- Cross Border Cases where Judgments are made in Absentia (PDF 17kb)
- Reforming Bribery (PDF 46kb)
- The High Court’s Jurisdiction in Criminal Proceedings (PDF 68kb)
- Law Commission’s Consultation Paper No 183: Conspiracy and Attempts (PDF 59kb)
- Sentencing for Corporate Manslaughter (PDF 67kb)
- Bad driving [2 May 2005]
- Causing death by driving offences [2 May 2005]
- Consultation on theft and dishonesty cases
- Bribery - A Consultation
- "Headroom" In Community Sentences [January 2007]
- International driving disqualifacation [18 April 2007]
- Magistrates' Court guidelines [17 May 2007]
- Making sentencing clearer [20 December 2006]
- Offences taken into consideration [18 April 2007]
- Possession of non photographic visual depictions of child sex abuse [23 May 2007]
- Quashing convictions [13 December 2006]
- Convicting rapists and protecting victims [22 May 2006]
- Sentencing for assault and other offences against the person [20 November 2005]
- Consultation on theft from a shop [6 November 2006]
Family