Selection Criteria in United Kingdom

Additional Selection Criteria in relation with the Courts and Tribunals in England

Each role has statutory entry requirements laid down by Parliament. On top of these there are additional, desirable, minimum entry requirements specified by the Lord Chancellor for particular posts. These can include the requirement that the candidate should normally expect to have completed 30 sitting days since appointment in a fee-paid judicial role or have two years’ judicial experience. Candidates not meeting the non-statutory requirements may still apply and may be successful. For exercises with such criteria, we aim to define the eligible pool as the number meeting the non-statutory requirements. However, this is not always possible and therefore eligible pools may be larger than the actual number of people able to meet the entry requirements.