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- - - - after student passed bptc course there is on the job training where the trainee barrister becomes a pupil toa qualified barrister - involves work shadowing barrister 12 months or 2 pupil supervisors for 6 months each
      - the method applying ouo changed so application made at pupilage gateway, all pupillage vacancies are notified to gateway and advertised on thhier site 0 applicayions 18 months before start of pupilllage. applications made for 12 adv vacancies, system much more open and allows applicans to know aboyt vancancies
    - - main prob financial students normally have to pay fees of bptc 0 about 15k the result is that students from less well off famillies cannot afford to take cources and therefor prevened from becoming barristers
        
        if they do degreee in subject other than law have to pay for gdl course
        
        the financial problenhas increased since unis have increased their fees to £9000 a year so that students are akready in debt from their defree courses
        another criticism is that non law gradyates do only one yeat of formal law for hdl 0 the omrod commitee which reported on legal education in 1971 thought that the main entry route should be via a law degree but in practice not all barristers would have taken a law degree#
        another prblem is that of over supply - there are not enough pupillage places for the number of studets who pass the BOC 0 in 2014 there were over 1,5k students taking thr bptv but only 422 pupillge places available
- - - - superior judes are those in the supreme cour, the court of appeal and the high court. they are
        
        the justices of the supremee court
        
        the lord justices of appeal in teh court of appeal
        
        high court judhes who sit in the three divisions of the high court and also sit to hear serious cases in the crown court
      - the head of the judiciary is the lord chief justice
    - - circuit judges who sit in both the crown court and country court
      - recorders who are part time judges who usually sit in the crown court tho some hear cases in the country court
      - district judges who hear small claims and ither matters in country court
      - district judges (magistrates courts) who sit in magistrates ciyrts in lonon and other major tiwns and cities
      - tribunal judges
  - - - qualificyins for dif judicial posts are set out in the courts and legal services act 1990 as ammended by the tribunals courts and envuronment act 2007. qualifications to becomej ajudhe or based on legal qialificayoons plus relevent legal experience for a numver of yeats
      - up to 2005 sleecttion of superior judges done by the lord chancellor
        the sustem was secretive
        in addition the lord chncellor was apoliyical appointment
        this meant that the selection of judges was not independent from political influence
    - - up to 2005 slection done by lord chancellor the system was secretive in addition the lord chancellor is a political appoinyment this meany selection of judges was not independent from ubfkuuence
        lord chancellor is still normally inbvolved with appintmenst ib the high court the supreme coury and coury appeal but for lower coury judhesjops yje process is now comol sep from yjhe hob and executibe . yhe ctime and courts act transferred the lord chancellors power in respect of all judges below yje hihj court to the lord chief
      - the judicial appointments commision
        
        responsible for selecting over500 people every year for judicial posts yje comission advertisies iys selecyio excersies on their website through email newsleyyer and on twitter
        the key features for appoinying judhes are
        apointments are made solely on meriy
        the comission is entirely responsibke for assessing the meriy of candiyayes and selecying yhem for appoinymeny]bi candidaye appointed unless recommended by comission
        yje comission musy consult iwth the lord advocateand another judge of equivilant experience begfore recommending candidate
      - 5 qualities that are desirable for judhe
        
        intellectual capaci5y
        
        3fficiency
        
        authority and communication skills
        
        abililty to understand and deal fairly
        
        person al qualities such as integrity independence of mind sond judgement decusuveness objectvity and willingness ti learn
        
        also important that potential judge is of good character - of a person hasa criminal convictio not considered for judficial appointmeny. the only exception is for minor motoring offences but eveb here the person must not too have many of these as shown by case of r v graham stuart jones v judicial appoinymrnts comission
        
        applicant for appointnet had 7 penalty pinys for for his di=riving license abd mororing offences 0 was sauad vy the hydicial appointments comission to be an outstanding cabdudate 0 but comission rejected his application cos guidelenes syaye jabing more yhan six poijts normally preevenys slection
    - - all candidateshave to fill in an application form candudates asked to nominaye between 3 and 6 referees in addition comission publishe alisy of people whom it may consukt abiy judhes includein existing judhes
      - f0rnapll judicial posts below the circ judhe there is an exyra filtering proces sall applicants online qualifiying test at start of application 0 these tests designed =to assses candidtaes abiliy to perform judhcial roles canditates than shot listed on yje bases of their performance