judicary

• superior judges


  superior judges are those judges who are entitled to sit in the high court, the court of appeals and the house of lords
• inferior judges


  inferior judges are those judges who sit in courts below the level of the high court
• qualifications


  set out in the courts and legal services act 1990
• selection


  constitutional reform act changed the way judges are appointed. they are now free from political influence
• appointment


  the appointment is made by the king. this keeps selection and appointment free from the government
• justices of the supreme court

  justices of the supreme court of the UK are the judges of the supreme court of the UK other then the president and the deputy president
• lord/lady justice of appeal

  a lord/lady justice of appeal is a judge is the court of appeal of England and Wales, the court that hears appeals from the high court of justice, the crown court and other courts and tribunals
• high court judges


  they try serious criminal cases, important civil cases and assist the lord and lady justices to hear appeals.
• circuit judges

  circuit judges are appointed to one of six circuits of England and Wales and sit in the crown or county courts in their particular region. they must be lawyers who have held a 'right of audience' for at least 7 years, or have been a recorder, or held certain other judicial roles on a full time basis for at least 3 years including being a high court master of district judge
• recorder


  a recorder is essentially a part time circuit judge, and like being deputy district or tribunal judge the role is fee paid. recorders are appointed to either the crown or county courts
• district judge

  the work of a district judge involves a wide spectrum of civil and family law. the jurisdiction of the district judge is the widest of any judicial appointment
• security of superior judges

  superior judges cannot be dismissed by the government. this comes from the act of settlement 1701
• tenure of inferior judges


  they do not have the same security as superior judges. the lord chancellor has the right to dismiss inferior judges
• immunity from suit


  judges are given immunity from prosecution from any acts they carry out in performance of their judicial function. they also benefit the immunity from being sued for deformation for the things they say about parties or witnesses in the course of hearing cases.
• independence from the executive

  judicial indecencies does, however, mean that judges must be free to exercise their judicial powers without interference from litigants, the state, the media or powerful individuals or entities, such as large companies
• independence form case


  judges should not have any personal involvement in a case