Appendix 3 Judicial evidence to Select Committees 2006 to August 2012
| Accountability purpose | Oral evidence | Committee and date of hearing | Written evidence |
| Scrutiny of the office of Lord Chief Justice | Lord Phillips, Lord Judge CJ, Goldring LJ | HLCC Dec 2010, HCJC Oct 2010, JCJC Jul 2008, HLCC May 2006, | |
| Scrutiny of constitutional relationships, inc. creation of Ministry of Justice | Lord Phillips, Lord Judge, Thomas LJ, Judge LJ, Lord Mackay of Clashfern,* Lord Lloyd of Berwick * | HLCC Jul 2008, HLCC Dec 2007, HLCC May 2007, HCJC May 2007, HLCC Feb 2007, HLCC Jan 2007 | Lord Phillips CJ (HCJC 2007) |
| Scrutiny of government proposals for human rights | Baroness Hale, Maurice Kay LJ | JCHR March 2008, HCJC Oct 2006 | |
| Scrutiny of operation of family courts | Sir Nicholas Wall P, Pauffley J, Ryder J, Sir Mark Potter P, John Thomas LJ, Munby J, District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) Nicholas Crighton | HCJC May 2011, PAC Oct 2010, HCJC May 2006 | HH Judge Clifford Bellamy (HCJC 2011) |
| Scrutiny of legal aid reforms | Sir Nicholas Wall P, Sir Anthony May P, Judge Robert Martin, Lady Butler-Sloss,* Sir Mark Potter | HCJC Feb 2011, HCJC June 2009, HCJC Jan 2007 | Sir Anthony May (HCJC Dec 2010), Sir Mark Potter P (JCJC Jul 2009) |
| Scrutiny of sentencing | Leveson LJ,*** Sir Igor Judge P, HH Judge Julian Hall, Lord Phillips CJ, Lord Woolf* | HCJC Jun 2011, HCJC Dec 2010, HCJC Jan 2008, HCJC Jul 2007, HCJC Jun 2007, HCHA Apr 2007 | Leveson LJ (HCJC Jul 2011, JCJC Jan 2011) |
| Scrutiny of reform of coroner's system | Smith LJ | HCJC Feb 2006 |
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Appendix 3 Continued
| Accountability purpose | Oral evidence | Committee and date of hearing | Written evidence |
| Scrutiny of judicial appointments process | Lord Mackay LC,* Lord Phillips PSC, Lord Judge CJ, Baroness Hale JSC, Lord Neuberger MR, Hallett LJ, Lord Woolf,* Lord Carswell,* Toulson LJ,**** Auld JL | HLCC Dec 2011, HLCC Nov 2011 (three meetings); HLCC Oct 2011 (two meetings); HCJC Jul 2006 | Baron J, Sir Konrad Schiemann,** Baroness Hale, Judge Hugo Storey, Judge Robert Martin, Arden JL, Lord Mance, Carnwath LJ; Judicial Executive Board— all to the HLCC 2010.Lord Judge CJ and Lord Phillips, jointly (JCDCRB 2008) |
| Ombudsman and the Equitable Life affair Tribunals | Hodge J, Andrew Collins J, HH Judge Robert Martin | HCJC Mar 2006, HCWPC Nov 2010 | Lord Judge, PASC 2009 |
| Domestic violence | District Judge Marilyn Morgan, Wall LJ | HCHA Jan 2008 | |
| Privacy and injunctions | Sir Nicolas Wall P, Baker J, Lord Neuberger MR, Tugendhat (recently retired Sir Stephen Sedley also gave evidence) | Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions, 2012 | |
| Extradition | Judge Riddle (Senior District Judge, Westminster Magistrates’ Court) | HCHA, February 2012 |
Key: HLCC = House of Lords Constitution Committee; HCJC = House of Commons Justice Committee; JCHR = Joint Committee on Human Rights; PAC = Public Accounts Committee; PASC = Public Administration Select Committee; HCHA = House of Commons Home Affairs Committee; JCDCRB = Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill; HCWPC = House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee.
* Retiredjudge.
* * Justice of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
* ** Chair of the Sentencing Council.
* *** Member of the JAC.