Protocols

Pilot Practice Direction: Health, Education and Social Care Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health)

Background 1. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it may be necessary for tribunals to adjust their ways of working to limit the spread of the virus and manage their workloads appropriately. I have therefore decided to ...

Pilot Practice Direction: Contingency Arrangements in the First-Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal

Pilot Practice Direction: Panel Composition in the First-Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal

Background 1. The Senior President of Tribunals is responsible for determining panel composition by virtue of an order made by the Lord Chancellor under section 145(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 of, the ...

Guidance on the use of s.28 YJCEA 1999; pre-recording of cross-examination and re-examination for witnesses captured by s.17(4) YJCEA 1999

30 September 2019 |Practice Directions|Protocols|Guidance|Criminal

GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF S.28 YOUTH JUSTICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT 1999; PRE-RECORDING OF CROSS-EXAMINATION AND RE-EXAMINATION FOR WITNESSES CAPTURED BY S.17(4) YJCEA 1999 When section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence ...

Judicial Data Processing Complaints Handling Policy

4 April 2019 |Protocols

The Judicial Data Protection Panel (Panel) was established in May 2018. This policy sets out the standards and procedures it will apply when dealing with complaints concerning the processing of personal data by the courts, ...

New Judicial Protocol for Children’s Cases in Scotland, and England and Wales

24 July 2018 |Protocols|Family

This protocol will provide for the direct exchange of information between judges in intra-UK cross-border cases involving children

Judicial Protocol update: Expedition of Cases Involving Witnesses Under 10 Years

13 July 2018 |Protocols|Guidance|Criminal

A Protocol between The National Police Chiefs’ Council, The Crown Prosecution Service and Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service to Expedite Cases Involving Witnesses Under 10 Years.

Protocol: Communicating with UK visas and immigration (UKVI) – In family proceedings

17 May 2018 |Protocols|Family

Protocol agreed between the President of the Family Division and the Home Office issued on 16 May 2018

Practice Direction for ‘heavy’ fraud trials estimated to take 6 weeks or more

16 April 2010 |Protocols|Criminal

This Direction applies only to cases committed or transferred by London Magistrates Courts to London Crown Courts or ‘Sent’ to London Crown Courts in accordance with the provisions of Section 51 of the Crime and ...