Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber: Pre-Application Seminar 2025
The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) will be launching a selection exercise in October to recruit Fee-paid Judges of the First-tier Tribunal. This seminar is focused on the Health, Education and Social Care (HESC) Chamber.
The seminar
The Judicial Office is organising a pre-application seminar that will take place online via Microsoft Teams from 5pm to 6:15pm on Monday 6 October 2025.
The seminar aims to help applicants be better prepared to make an application and to receive up-to-date guidance and advice on the JAC’s selection process. As well as the JAC, you will also hear from the President of the HESC Chamber, leadership judges and current fee-paid tribunal judges.
Who should attend?
Judicial office holders and practitioners from all backgrounds, including solicitors and Chartered Legal Executives, who have five years’ legal post-qualification experience are welcome to attend.
For more information on the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber, please visit Health, Education and Social Care Chamber – Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
Further information
Check out the JAC future vacancies page.
For any queries regarding the recruitment campaign/selection exercise, please contact the JAC selection exercise team: FPFTT287@judicialappointments.gov.uk.
For any queries regarding the pre-application seminar, please email JudicialHROutreachEvents@judiciary.uk.
If you are interested in shadowing a judge, please check out the Judicial Work Shadowing Scheme.
Please note that although the Judicial Office will be running the pre-application seminar, the actual recruitment campaign is being done and led by the Judicial Appointments Commission.
If you’d like to attend the seminar, please register via the Judicial Careers Portal.