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Number of vacancies: three
Closing date for applications: 12 January 2012
Salary: £138,548
Locations: South East (Woolwich), North East (Teesside) and Wales (Cardiff).
Senior Circuit Judges carry out the full duties of a Circuit Judge, but hear particularly demanding or specialist cases. The job of a Senior Circuit Judge trying heavyweight crime carries important responsibility and a heavy workload. Murder, serious organised crime, serious sexual offences and complex fraud are among the cases these judges will hear.
Resident Judges carry out additional leadership and management duties, running court centres. They oversee the disposal of cases and listings at their centre, offering support and guidance to the judiciary in the centre and provide a link between them, the Presiding Judges and the administration.
The JAC welcomes applications from solicitors and barristers with at least seven years post qualification experience (PQE). The Lord Chancellor expects candidates to have sufficient directly relevant previous judicial experience. In exceptional circumstances, if a candidate has demonstrated the skills in some other significant way, an exception may be made. Please see the information pack for full details of eligibility.
We also welcome applications from Recorders or those who have held a full-time judicial appointment for at least three years in one of the offices listed in Part 1A of Schedule 2 of the Courts Act 1971.
For these posts the Lord Chancellor expects that the successful candidates will already be authorised, or will have the experience to be authorised, to hear Class 1 cases shortly after appointment.
Read a case study of Clement Goldstone, a Resident Senior Circuit Judge, appointed in October 2011.
The above information relates to the Senior Circuit Judge - Resident Judge exercise. If you are interested in the Specialist Circuit Judge (Mercantile) selection exercise which the JAC is running concurrently please visit the web page
To the right of this page, there is a job description, a statement of the full eligibility criteria for the role and the terms and conditions of employment. You will also find an application form and an information pack, describing the selection process, with dates of the shortlisting and selection days, and advice on how to prepare your application.