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The Senior Courts: - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Civil Division hears appeals from the High Court, County Courts (if judgement was given by a Circuit Judge) and certain tribunals such as the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Immigration Appeal Tribunal.
      - It is headed by the Master of the Rolls. Cases are generally heard by three judges, consisting of any combination of the Heads of Division and Lords Justices of Appeal.
      - The Criminal Division hears appeals from the Crown Court. It is headed by the Lord Chief Justice, who is the Head of the Judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales. The Lord Chief Justice assumed the role of Head of the Judiciary following the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which changed the role of the Lord Chancellor from a mixed judicial and political one to a fully political one.
      - Cases in the Criminal Division are generally heard by three judges, consisting of the Lord Chief Justice or the President of the King’s Bench Division or one of the Lords Justices of Appeal, together with two High Court Judges or one High Court Judge and one specially nominated Senior Circuit Judge.