Information Pack:
00924 –
High Court (Queen’s Bench, Family and Chancery Divisions)
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Contents
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Introduction
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Requirements for appointment
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The selection process
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Further information and contacts
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Introduction
The Judicial Appointments Commission
(JAC)1 is now inviting applications for the
position of High Court Judge. The closing
date for applications is noon on Thursday
27 November 2014. The JAC has been
asked to recommend candidates to fill ten
vacancies: one in the Chancery Division,
two in the Family Division (FD) and seven
in the Queen’s Bench Division (QBD).
While all the selections will be made on
merit, the QBD positions will ideally be
filled by candidates with particular
specialisms: it has been decided that the
business of the Division is such that two
new judges will be needed in the
Technology and Construction Court (TCC),
one in the Commercial Court, one in
defamation, one in Public Law (preferably
with an understanding of public law tax
issues) and two generalists. For the latter,
an experience of crime would be an
advantage but is not essential. All QBD
candidates need to be able to work or
develop expertise across all aspects of the
work of the Division.
In relation to the FD posts, the successful
candidates should ideally be competent in
both children and money cases. However,
outstanding candidates without experience
in this area will be considered.
Excellent candidates with a background in
any of the areas of specialism within the
Chancery Division are encouraged to
apply.
All ten posts will be based at the Royal
Courts of Justice in London but may
involve working at courts ‘on circuit’ across
England and Wales.
These vacancies are likely to arise from
Spring 2015 and there is every expectation
that the majority of these appointments will
be made within the following 12 months.
Candidates are asked to note that one of
the two FD vacancies will arise in 2015 or
2016 but currently not expected later than
Easter 2016.
This pack contains the information that you
need about the vacancies. It describes the
selection process that the JAC will apply,
with relevant dates and advice on how to
prepare for the various stages of this
process.
Before you can be considered for
appointment, there are eligibility
requirements that you must meet. These
are set out at 2.1 on page 4. Please note
the Lord Chancellor’s policy in relation to
previous judicial experience. This is set out
at 2.2 on page 5.
Please note that you do NOT have to be a
Deputy High Court Judge or a Queen’s
Counsel to apply for these vacancies.
The JAC is also required to assess your
character. Before applying you should read
these requirements and the guidelines that
the JAC uses to assess character. These
can be found on our website under
‘Starting a Judicial Career’
(http://jac.judiciary.gov.uk).
You should also consider whether you are
ready to apply for this judicial role, and in
doing so may wish to look at the top tips
and case studies sections of our website
under ‘Starting a Judicial Career.’
1.1 Overview of the role
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The independent JAC selects candidates for
judicial office. It does so on merit, through fair and
open competition, from the widest range of eligible
candidates.
Although the High Court comprises three
Divisions (Queen’s Bench, Chancery and
Family), the jurisdiction of the High Court is
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indivisible in law and, irrespective of the
Division to which a judge is assigned, all
judges of the High Court possess equal
power, authority and jurisdiction.
Accordingly, in response to the business
needs of the court, judges may be required
to sit in a Division other than that to which
they are assigned. Furthermore, although
based at the Royal Courts of Justice, High
Court Judges may also be required to sit at
a number of provincial centres in a broad
range of jurisdictions.
Additional information for candidates
Candidates for Queen’s Bench Division
and Family Division posts must be able to
work or develop expertise across all
aspects of the work of the Divisions.
The Lord Chancellor has also stated that
candidates for all Divisions must be of
outstanding ability, and must demonstrate
actual or potential leadership qualities.
Candidates should note that High Court
Judges’ sitting patterns are tied to the
dates of the legal year which are available
on the judiciary.gov.uk website at
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-thejudiciary/the-justice-system/term-datesand-sittings/term-dates/
Candidates are reminded that the
jurisdiction covers England and Wales, and
judges can be deployed to sit in courts in
Wales which is beginning to enact primary
legislation different to the law applicable in
England.
Leadership and management
responsibilities
running of the courts on the Circuit to which
they are assigned, the deployment of High
Court and Circuit Judges in the Circuit, and
attending to the well-being of the Circuit
judiciary.
One Family Division Judge is appointed for
each Circuit as a Family Division Liaison
Judge (FDLJ) whose responsibilities
include judicial deployment, supervising the
listing of Family Division work on Circuit,
co-ordinating the work of the Designated
Family Judges on Circuit, and liaising with
the local family judges at all levels.
Chancery Division Judges may be
appointed to serve as Chancery
Supervising Judge and as Presiding Judge
of the Tax and Chancery Chamber of the
Upper Tier Tribunal.
High Court Judges may occasionally serve
on committees, inquiries and other bodies
where the services of a senior member of
the judiciary are required (e.g. the Parole
Board and Judicial College).
Some of the leadership responsibilities held
by High Court judges can be seen on the
list of senior judges on the judiciary.gov.uk
website at
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-thejudiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/seniorjudiciary-list/
Newly appointed High Court Judges are
expected to do vacation duty for a total of
six weeks before they qualify for time off inlieu. However, some flexibility is possible
and new judges can arrange time off for
important events before completing their
duty in consultation with their respective
Head of Division.
Leadership and management skills are
important for these roles: High Court
Judges may be appointed at some stage to
serve as Presiding Judges or as a Judge in
charge of a particular area of business. The
responsibilities of Presiding Judges include
the exercise of broad supervision over the
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Salaried Part Time Working (SPTW)
Flexible working is available for the Family
and Queen’s Bench Divisions; any working
pattern will need to maintain continuity of
the business and efficiency of sittings.
There are the following potential flexible
working patterns:
Family Division – one post by spring 2016,
at either 50/50 or 60/40 job share but must
equate to a FTE, e.g two people, each
working 50% or one working 60% and the
other 40% on a SPTW basis. The other
post, 2015 is full-time.
Queen’s Bench Division - available for one
of the Generalist posts at a minimum
pattern of 50% but must equate to a FTE,
e.g two people, each working 50% on a
SPTW basis.
SPTW is not available for the Chancery
post.
Final working patterns will need to be
discussed and agreed between the
successful candidate, relevant HoD and
HMCTS at the time of appointment.
The court estate in most cases does not
allow job sharing judges to work on the
same day and chambers/courtrooms may
therefore need to be shared.
The salary for these posts is £176,226
(Salary group 4).
The outline terms and conditions, along
with the job description, can be found on
our website.
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Requirements for
Appointment
2.1 Statutory Eligibility requirements
Please carefully consider whether you are
likely to be eligible before applying.
Eligibility requirements will be considered
at the post application stage.
To be eligible for appointment as a High
Court Judge you must meet the following
requirements.
Statutory eligibility requirements
Under section 10(3)(c) of the Senior Courts
Act 1981, as amended by para 13 of
Schedule 10 of the Tribunals, Courts and
Enforcement Act 2007, no person shall be
qualified for appointment as a puisne judge
of the High Court unless that person (i) satisfies the judicial-appointment
eligibility condition on a 7-year
basis; or
(ii) is a Circuit Judge who has held that
office for at least 2 years.
The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act
(TCE) 2007 introduced the ‘judicialappointment eligibility condition’. You will
have to show that:
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you have possessed a relevant legal
qualification;
for the requisite period; and
that whilst holding that qualification you
have been gaining legal experience.
Relevant legal qualification
You have a relevant legal qualification if
you are a solicitor or barrister.
You will be considered eligible as a solicitor
when your name was first entered on the
Roll kept under section 6 of the Solicitors
Act 1974.
You will be considered eligible as a
barrister a) when you completed pupillage
in connection with becoming a barrister or
b) if you were not required to undertake
pupillage in connection with becoming a
barrister, when you were called to the Bar
of England and Wales.
If you were not required to undertake
pupillage, you will need to provide details in
the application form of why you were not.
This will most likely be because you were
called to the Bar prior to 1 January 2002. If
you were called to the Bar after this date,
you will only be eligible if you have
completed or have been exempted from
pupillage by the Bar Standards Board. If
you have been exempted from pupillage,
you will be required to provide evidence of
this by the time applications close,
otherwise you will not be eligible to
proceed.
Requisite period
The JAC will measure the requisite period
from the start date of the relevant legal
qualification up to the end of April 2015.2
Legal experience
In order to be eligible for judicial
appointment, you must not only be in
possession of the relevant legal
qualification for the requisite period, but
must also have been engaged in ‘law
related activity’ whilst holding that
qualification.
An activity is considered to be a law related
activity whether or not it is undertaken for
remuneration, and whether or not it is
undertaken on a full or part-time basis.
Each of the following is a relevant law
related activity:
a) the carrying out of judicial functions of
any court or tribunal;
b) acting as an arbitrator;
c) practice or employment as a lawyer;
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The requisite period is that required to satisfying the
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d) advising (whether or not in the course
of practice or employment as a lawyer)
on the application of the law;
e) assisting (whether or not in the course
of such practice) persons involved in
proceedings for the resolution of issues
arising under the law;
f) acting (whether or not in the course of
such practice) as mediator in
connection with attempts to resolve
issues that are, or if not resolved could
be, the subject of proceedings;
g) drafting (whether or not in the course of
such practice) documents intended to
affect persons’ rights or obligations;
h) teaching or researching law; or
i) any activity that in the relevant decision
makers’ opinion (this means the
Appropriate Authority or his delegated
official) is of a broadly similar nature to
an activity within paragraphs a) to h).
Please note that the Lord Chancellor does
not consider service as a Magistrate to be
demonstrative of gaining experience in the
law or as equivalent to previous judicial
experience.
Further guidance on the meaning of a law
related activity has been provided by the
MoJ and can be found on the JAC website.
(http://jac.judiciary.gov.uk/aboutjac/tribunals-courts-enforcement-act.htm)
2.2 Additional Selection Criteria
In addition to the statutory eligibility criteria
the Lord Chancellor also requires
candidates to satisfy additional criteria.
Previous service in a judicial office
The Lord Chancellor expects that
candidates for this post will have sufficient
directly relevant previous judicial
experience. Only if the candidate has
demonstrated the requisite skills in some
other significant way should an exception
be made.
The meaning of “directly relevant
experience” is sitting as a judge in a
salaried or fee-paid capacity, for fee-paid
judges this should be for a period of at
least two years or 30 sitting days since
appointment.
Age
There is no upper or lower age limit for
candidates apart from the statutory
retirement age of 70. However, the age at
which someone is appointed as a High
Court Judge must allow for a reasonable
length of service before retirement. For
this position it is five years from
appointment.
Candidates who already hold judicial
appointment and were first appointed prior
to March 1995, may have a preserved
retirement age of 72. This will be the case
for candidates first appointed to a judicial
office listed in Schedule 7 to the Judicial
Pensions and Retirement Act 1993. Such
candidates are asked to inform the team
running this exercise, via email, of their
retirement age.
2.3 Nationality
You must complete a declaration of your
nationality in the application form. In order
to qualify for this post you must be a citizen
of:
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the United Kingdom; or
another Commonwealth country; or
the Republic of Ireland.
Other European Union Citizens are not
eligible to apply.
You must satisfy the nationality
requirements by the time applications close
for the exercise.
Disqualification
You should note that the House of
Commons Disqualification Act 1975 applies
to this office. For further details please
refer to the outline terms and conditions.
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The selection process
3.1 Correspondence
Please indicate on the application form
whether you are prepared to receive
correspondence via email throughout the
exercise. Please note that should you be
successful, this email address will
additionally be shared with the Judicial
Office in the Ministry of Justice to enable it
to contact you for appointment purposes.
3.2 Timetable
Closing date for applications Noon on
Thursday 27
November
2014
Dates for sift
12-16
January- 1923 January 2015
Dates for selection days
16 -20
February - 23
- 27 February- 2 -5 March
2015
3.3 The application form
The application form plays an important
part in the selection process. You should
complete all sections of the form, ensuring
the information you provide is clear and
accurate.
In the relevant section of the application
form, you are asked to describe a recent
piece of complex work and to explain
 why you found it complex and
 how it demonstrated the following
selection criteria: “a high level of
legal expertise” and “the
appropriate knowledge of the law
and its underlying principles”.
The self assessment
When completing the self assessment
please be concise. Note form is
acceptable. Any information in excess of
250 words, per box, will not be used to
support your application.
In preparing your self assessment it is
important to remember that this is a critical
part of your application. Please look
carefully at the qualities and abilities
required for this post. Applicants will be
assessed against all the qualities and
abilities on the basis of evidence, produced
during the selection process, which
demonstrates the relevant knowledge,
experience or attribute. The self
assessment is your opportunity to
demonstrate that you possess the required
qualities and abilities rather than merely
reiterating your career history.
You should consider the following:
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Ensure that you provide specific
examples that demonstrate how your
skills match the qualities and abilities
sought at the level appropriate for the
role for this role. It is not sufficient to
talk generally about a situation and
what happened – we need to know
specifically what the situation was, the
action you took and the result.
The examples you cite can draw as
much on experience gained outside
your professional life as within it.
Be clear and explicit when writing your
examples so that there is no room for
doubt about how you personally have
tackled something. Do not assume that
the person reading your form will be
able to infer, from your description,
what your role was and what
specifically you were responsible for.
Keep your answers concise and to the
point. It is important that you focus on
your actions and your responsibilities,
not the situation as a whole.
If, when completing your selfassessment, your text is within the word
limit but fills more than the space
provided, all your text will be saved and
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your full response will be received by
the JAC.
Obtaining an application form
The application form can be obtained
electronically by downloading it from the
JAC website.
If you need the form, information pack or
other information in a different format for
example Braille please contact us using the
details below:
Reference: 00924 (Please use this
reference on all communications)
Please ask your referees to review the
guidance contained within the reference
form for information on matters that should
be included within their references.
Please advise your referees that the
preferred method of submission of
references to the JAC is via email: hard
copies will be accepted only in exceptional
circumstances.
Nominating referees
Candidates are asked to nominate two
referees.
If you are:
Email:
Telephone:
jaas@jac.gsi.gov.uk
020 3334 0123
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a salaried judge, you must provide
the contact details of the relevant
specified referee from the judicial
list below and one personal referee
of your choice. Salaried judges
need not nominate professional
referees.
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a fee paid judge and practitioner,
you must provide the contact
details of one referee from the
judicial list and one from the
professional list.
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not a judicial office holder, you
must provide one professional
referee and one personal referee.
3.4 Referees
References will be required in time for the
shortlisting stage. The material they
provide will inform decisions not just for
shortlisting, but also at selection day and
for the final selection decisions made by
Commissioners.
The JAC will contact only the nominated
judicial/professional referees.
Candidates themselves are responsible for
contacting their personal referees. Below
are details of the email address to which,
and date by which, personal references
must be submitted.
You must ask your referees to e-mail their
references direct to the JAC at
references@jac.gsi.gov.uk by noon on
Friday 12 December 2014.
When choosing your referees, please
nominate people who, through extensive
and up-to-date knowledge of your work,
can give evidence-based examples to
demonstrate that you possess all the
required qualities and abilities for this post.
Your referees’ familiarity with your work
performance is of greatest importance.
If you do not wish us to approach your
professional referee at this stage, you must
tell us the reasons why not. You must also
suggest an alternative referee who, through
extensive and up-to-date knowledge of
your work, can give evidence-based
examples demonstrating that you possess
all the required qualities and abilities for
this post.
Judicial referee
If you are a salaried or a fee-paid judge,
you must nominate one person as defined
in the table below:
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Candidate’s
Referee
Office
Deputy High Court Head of Division, or Judge in
Judge
charge of the specialist court
where you sit most often.
Senior or
The senior Presiding Judge
Specialist Circuit
on Circuit
Judge
Circuit Judge or
Resident Judge, the
Recorder
Designated Civil Judge or the
Designated Family Judge in
the court(s) where you sit
most often, or the senior
Presiding Judge on Circuit
District Judge or
The relevant Senior District
Deputy District
Judge or the local Designated
Judge
Civil Judge
Tribunal judge or
Your appraising judge
member
The judicial referee will be invited to
provide example- based evidence for
his/her own knowledge of your work and/or
from other sources, for instance judgments
or other written work, particularly where the
referee does not have extensive knowledge
of your work in court. Where such evidence
is taken from another source or sources,
the referee will be invited so to indicate and
only to include it where s/he is satisfied that
it is reliable, accurate and evidence based.
Professional referee
If you are a practitioner, including those
who hold a fee-paid office, you must
nominate one person as defined by the
table below:
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If you hold a judicial office not on this list, or if you
are concerned that the listed individual has
insufficient knowledge of your work, please contact
the JAC as to who to nominate as your judicial
referee.
Professional referees4 list
Candidate’s
Referee
Profession/post
Solicitor
Managing, senior, or
relevant equity partner
Barrister
Head of Chambers
Head of Chambers
Former Head of Chambers
Sole practitioner
A person with direct
knowledge of the work you
do
Other employment
Director, manager or
equivalent
Personal referee
Candidates themselves are responsible for
contacting their personal referees. Below
are details of the email address to which,
and date by which, personal references
must be submitted.
Your personal referee should have direct
knowledge of the professional or voluntary
work you do. This could be someone you
work for, with, or on behalf of.
You must ask your referees to e-mail their
references direct to the JAC at
references@jac.gsi.gov.uk by noon on
Friday 12 December 2014. You may ask
them to do so as soon as the exercise
launches on 13 November 2014, when they
can download the relevant forms and
associated information for this particular
exercise from our website. Please ask
them to include the Selection Exercise
number and name, together with your
name in the subject line.
We strongly recommend that you check
with your referees that they do not have a
conflict of interest in this exercise and that
they are able and content to support you
within the required timescale. You should
not nominate an individual who you know
to be a candidate within the exercise as a
referee.
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Conflict of interest
The JAC Commissioners are listed on the
JAC website. Do not nominate a
Commissioner as a referee. You should
also state in the application form if you are
in any way related to or known by any of
the Commissioners and give details.
two divisions, the interviews are unlikely to
be on the same day.
In addition do not nominate the President
of the Queen’s Bench Division, the
President of the Family Division and the
Chancellor of the High Court as they are
statutory consultees. The judicial panel
members for this exercise will be: Lady
Justice Rafferty (QBD), Lord Justice
McFarlane (FD) and Lord Justice Briggs
(Chancery). They should not be
approached for references either.
The JAC will also consult the President of
the Queen’s Bench Division for Queen’s
Bench vacancies, the President of the
Family Division for Family Division
vacancies and the Chancellor of the High
Court for Chancery Division vacancies.
3.5 Shortlisting
The first stage in the selection process is
shortlisting. For this exercise shortlisting
will be carried out by way of a “sift”. The
selection panel will consider the information
provided in your application form and the
references received. The letter informing
unsuccessful candidates of the result of the
sift will contain feedback.
Panel’s approach to shortlisting
The panel will assess all qualities and
abilities in the round, but will give particular
weight to Intellectual Capacity as this is the
most pertinent quality for this exercise.
Candidates will be shortlisted on merit
regardless of specialism. The only
exception will be for the Technology and
Construction Court (TCC) posts, where the
successful candidate(s) will be the most
meritorious within this jurisdiction.
In the case of candidates applying for more
than one division, the panel will assess
these candidates on merit for each
individual post. Dual applicants will be
sifted for the two positions they applied for
but might not be shortlisted for both.
Applicants should note that, in the case of
a candidate going through to selection for
3.6 Statutory consultation
As required by statute, the JAC will carry
out consultation. The consultees for this
exercise will be the Lord Chief Justice.
The consultation will take place following
the shortlisting of candidates invited to
selection days and the information provided
by statutory consultees will be used to
inform selection decisions.
3.7 Selection day
If you are shortlisted, you will be invited to
a selection day. For this exercise the
interview will be enhanced with situational
questioning to assess qualities and abilities
that may not be tested by an interview
alone. The situational questions will be set
in the High Court division relevant to the
post(s) applied for (Chancery/Family/QB).
Ahead of the selection day, you may be
provided with material that will enable you
to prepare, if needed. On the day itself,
you will be given a scenario based on a
real-life, challenging, job-related situation.
You will have further time to prepare your
response before you meet the panel.
The interview will consist of the panel
seeking evidence from you against the
qualities and abilities for the post. The
overall assessment made by the panel is
provided to the Commissioners when they
make their selection decisions.
3.8 Good character
The JAC is required by statute to select
only persons of ‘good character’. The JAC
will determine a candidate’s good character
in advance of making selection
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recommendations. This may result in
candidates participating in a selection day
yet subsequently being regarded as not of
sufficiently good character to be appointed.
In order to make these assessments, we
have developed character guidance which
you can find on our website under ‘Starting
a Judicial Career.’
The character guidance gives you some
indication as to whether anything in your
past conduct or present circumstances
might affect your application for judicial
appointment. You should read it carefully
before completing the application form. You
have a continuing responsibility throughout
the selection process to make the JAC
aware of any character matters that may
arise up to the date of appointment.
Character questions and declarations
You are required to answer a number of
questions related to your character in the
application form and must make the
appropriate declarations as required.
Full details on the criminal offences which
must be declared can be found on the
‘Character requirements’ page of the JAC
website, which is available by accessing
the following link:
http://jac.judiciary.gov.uk/applicationprocess/character-requirements.htm
When disclosing a conviction you must
include the nature of the offence, the date
of conviction or caution and the penalty
imposed.
Where proceedings of any kind are
pending, you should give details of the
offence with which you have been charged
or the disciplinary process which you are
subject to and, if known, the date when the
case or action may be heard. It is important
that you inform us of the outcome of any
case or action concluded while your
application is under consideration.
Similarly, if you are charged with any
offence or any action is brought against
you after submitting your application you
must inform us immediately (see the
‘Contacts and Further Information’ section
of this information pack).
In all cases, please provide as much detail
as you can and indicate if there are any
mitigating factors that you think the JAC
should take into account in assessing your
character.
Character checks
The JAC will also carry out checks on all
candidates whom it intends to consider for
appointment. Consent to carry out these
checks will be sought separately at
selection days.
Failure to declare any matters that come to
light from these checks may prejudice the
outcome of your application.
3.9 Selection decisions
The Commission, sitting as the Selection
and Character Committee (SCC), will
consider which candidates to recommend
to the Appropriate Authority as set out in
the Judicial Appointment Regulations 2013.
For this exercise the Appropriate Authority
will be the Lord Chancellor.
In doing so the Commission will consider
all the information gathered about the
candidates, which includes the overall
assessment report from the selection panel
and statutory consultation comments.
In line with its published policy, the
Commission will apply the Equal Merit
Provision to this exercise. If the SCC
considers two or more candidates are of
equal merit, it may use the provision based
on the data declared by candidates in the
diversity monitoring form. The policy can be
found at the following link:
http://jac.judiciary.gov.uk/aboutjac/2767.htm
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3.12
The relevant datasets that will be used to
identify any under-representation at the
High Court level are taken from 2011
Census, detailed Characteristics, England
and Wales (ONS 2012) and the diversity
statistics showing the background of the
courts judiciary (as at April 2014), based
upon primary appointment, as published on
the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website.
The population of the United Kingdom
('usual residents') aged 25 - 74 that are
women is 50.4% and that is BAME is
11.3%
The proportion of High Court judges that
are women is 17.9% and of those who
declared their ethnicity 3.3% declared they
were from a BAME background.
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Medical examination
You may be asked to undergo a medical
examination before taking up appointment.
3.13
Complaints procedure
If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of
the handling of your application, you should
refer to the JAC’s published complaints
procedure which is available from our
website.
3.14
Diversity monitoring
As part of the application form, the JAC
asks candidates to complete diversity
questions to enable us to monitor the
effectiveness of our diversity strategy in
line with our statutory duties. If you do not
wish to declare any particular
characteristic, please select “I prefer not to
answer”.
Report to the Lord Chancellor
The Commission reports its final selections
to the Appropriate Authority who can
accept or reject this recommendation, or
ask the Commission to reconsider it. The
Appropriate Authority may not select an
alternative candidate.
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Outcome of the selection
exercise
Please note that we will issue the results to
successful and unsuccessful candidates
who attended a selection day, on the same
day. This will be done three to four weeks
following the SCC meeting and by email
unless you have indicated otherwise. We,
therefore, expect to be able to inform you
of the outcome of your application by May
2015.
If you are unsuccessful following the
selection day stage of the process, you can
request written feedback from the selection
panel. You should make this request within
six weeks of the date of the letter informing
you that you have not been successful. We
will aim to respond to your request within
20 working days.
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Further information and
contacts
4.1 Further Information
For further information about the selection
process and the requirements of the CRA
2005, please consult our website.
4.2 Reasonable adjustments
The JAC has a duty to make reasonable
adjustments for disabled applicants to
ensure that they can participate in the
selection process fairly. The application
form asks you to identify any arrangements
and adjustments you may require.
Requests will be considered on a case-bycase basis and the information given will
not be used when making selection
decisions.
If you are recommended for appointment,
any reasonable adjustments to enable you
to take up appointment will be discussed
separately with you by Her Majesty’s
Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
after the JAC has made its
recommendation.
4.3 Submitting your application form
Once completed your application should be
submitted via our secure online process by
going to our website and selecting ‘Submit
your Application’. Applications will only be
accepted in hard copy in exceptional
circumstances.
Please submit only one application as
duplicate applications risk handling errors
and cause delays.
4.4 Acknowledgement of your
application form
When you submit your application by our
secure online application process you will
receive an acknowledgement on your
computer screen. Depending on your
internet service provider or computer
equipment this could take anything
between a few seconds to several minutes.
If you do not receive an acknowledgement
within 15 minutes, it is likely that your
application has not been received. It is,
therefore, essential that you contact us by
telephone on 0203 334 0123 or by email on
jaas@jac.gsi.gov.uk.
You can also request confirmation to be
sent via an auto-generated e-mail by
entering your email address on the
application form submission page of the
online application.
In the unlikely event that your application is
not received by the JAC, you will be
required to provide proof of submission.
Failure to do so could result in your
application not being accepted. It is,
therefore, highly recommended that you do
request e-mail confirmation.
4.5 E-mailing the JAC
If you are a Microsoft Outlook user, please
ensure that your e-mail security settings
are not set to 'Private' when e-mailing a
JAC mailbox. E-mails set to 'Private'
cannot be viewed by the JAC. You can
change your e-mail’s security settings
before sending by selecting 'View' from the
e-mail’s taskbar, then 'Options', and then
'Normal' from the drop-down list next to
'Sensitivity'. Alternatively, you may be able
to go direct to the 'Options' menu if this is
displayed on the taskbar.
Please be assured that any e-mail,
irrespective of marking, is securely handled
by the JAC. If you are experiencing
difficulties or require any guidance on email security, please refer to the contact
details below.
4.6 Contact details
Selection Exercise Team:
Linda McCabe - 020 3334 6588
Selection Exercise Manager
Françoise Cave - 020 3334 6078
Selection Exercise Project Manager
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