Judicial Training Committee

The work of the Judicial Training Committee is to plan and deliver the training programmes of induction and continuation training for the Circuit and District Bench and set and maintain standards for training. The Committee ensures consistency, shares experience and determines priorities across judicial training.
The Judicial Training Committee’s remit is to oversee training in the civil, family and criminal jurisdictions (the latter including District Judges in the magistrates’ courts). Jurisdictional planning groups have been established to enable Directors of Training to oversee training in their respective jurisdictions.

Criminal, Civil & Family Training

The Directors of Training are responsible for providing, reviewing and developing high-quality programmes of induction, continuation and specialist training for their respective jurisdictions, ensuring that identified training and learning needs are met in a timely and cost-effective way and that all training includes consideration of potential fair treatment and diversity issues.
Directors of Training are supported by jurisdictional planning groups in the detailed delivery of individual courses and training programmes. The membership of these groups is usually the Director of Training, the Course Directors, the Director of Studies, an ETAC Adviser, a JSB Executive Director and Senior Education Adviser.
In addition, the Directors of Training for Criminal and Family will work together with the Magisterial Committee where there are common criminal and family jurisdictional training needs.