Completing the form

You should complete all sections of the form, ensuring the information you provide is clear and accurate.

When completing the form, please use Arial 11pt font only.

Personal Information
Make sure you complete this section fully and clearly. It is important that you provide us with a full address and contact details as we will need this to contact you regarding your application.


Eligibility
Minimum entry requirements are documented in the Information Pack for each exercise. Please ensure that you complete the relevant section on the Application Form.


Further and Higher Education and Qualifications
You must ensure you provide all the information about your education and qualifications. Please do not forget to include dates.


Career History
Detail the name and address of the organisation, the date you started at the organisation and the date of leaving (if applicable). You will also be asked to include a brief description of your duties.


Qualities and Abilities - Self Assessment
This is an extremely important part of your application. Please be concise, as any information in excess of two pages will not be used to support your application. Bullet points and note form are acceptable.

In preparing your self assessment it is important to remember that this is a critical part of your application.  Before completing this section, review the qualities and abilities provided in the application form and consider why you are suitable for the post, relating your qualities and abilities to those provided as fully as possible.

At every stage of the selection process we will be assessing you on one or more of these qualities and abilities. It is these and only these that the selection panel are assessing. We are not concerned with whether you are a member of ILEX, solicitor or barrister, where you went to university, where you practice, your gender or ethnic origin.

This assessment is your opportunity to expand on the information you have given us about your career history and provide more than a reiteration of your CV. 

When preparing this please consider the following:

  • make sure that you provide specifics when providing your examples.  It is not enough to talk generally about a situation and what happened - we need to know specifically what your thinking was, what actions you took and how you handled the situation.
  • be 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 not worth spending most of your example describing the situation while leaving little room for the most relevant pieces of information - what you did.  It is important that the focus is on you - your actions and your responsibilities - not the situation as a whole.
  • provide examples to demonstrate how your skills match the qualities and abilities sought at the appropriate level for the role for which you are applying.


Character
Please read the guidance carefully before completing this section.

Please also note that applicants for judicial appointment are not protected by sections 4(2) and 4(3) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and convictions which would normally be regarded as having expired under that Act should therefore be declared in writing (Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975).

It is essential that you answer all the following questions fully. You are required to declare all matters whether or not these have been declared in a previous application or to any other body. Please include comparable information for all jurisdictions relevant to you and your work. Where you have answered yes, please include any mitigating information you would like the JAC Commissioners to take into account when considering your application. If you are in any doubt please include all relevant information.

You also have a duty to tell the JAC about any new information relating to your character which might arise up to the point of appointment. 


References
Please note that referees are usually approached before the selection day.  In some cases references will be taken up before the shortlisting stage.  This will be stipulated in the Information Pack for the post you have applied for. 

You will need to give three candidate nominated referees, and identify the relevant person to act as your JAC nominated referee.   Further information about selecting referees, and what information to give your referees.


Availability
Please complete this section as fully as possible.


Reasonable Adjustments
The JAC will consider any reasonable adjustments needed to ensure that you can participate in the selection process fairly.
Please consider the entire selection process when completing this section.


Confirming Your Application
If the vacancy you are applying for has multiple positions available, please complete this section as fully as possible.


Declarations
You must disclose if you are a related to or known by a Commissioner.

In signing the form you confirm that all the information you have given in the application form is true and accurate.


Submitting Your Application
Instructions for submitting your Application Form can be found here.


Application Monitoring
The JAC is committed to equality of opportunity. We need to monitor our selection processes to ensure that they are fair and non-discriminatory. We need your help to do this by completing the form in full. This will help us to develop good practice for the future.

Please complete the application monitoring form even if you have done so on previous applications. It is very important that you fill in all sections of the form, otherwise our monitoring will not be accurate.

The information provided will be held in confidence. It will be used for statistical and research purposes only. It will not be used for making selection decisions.