High Court judges are assigned to one of the three divisions of the High Court – the Queen’s Bench Division, the Family Division and the Chancery Division.
Month: August 2021
The Master of the Rolls is, by virtue of his office, a judge of the Court of Appeal and and is the President of its Civil Division. He is responsible for the deployment and organisation of the work of...
udicial College courses, domestically and internationally, use a range of well-tried teaching methods, starting from the principle of ‘judges teaching judges’ and exploiting participants’ experience of law and life, judicial work and legal practice, to develop judicial skills.
When disputes do come to the courts, the cases are dealt with by magistrates and judges specially trained to deal with issues affecting families. These disputes often involve very difficult circumstances, for example relationship breakdown or child contact. Judges...
ses come to court after a decision has been made by, usually the Crown Prosecution Service, to prosecute someone for an alleged crime. In the vast majority of cases (over 95 per cent), magistrates hear the evidence and, as...
Civil judges do have the power to punish parties if, for example, they are in contempt of court but, generally, civil cases do not involve the imposition of any punishment
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