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Judicial Skills and Abilities Framework (JSAF) – legal roles
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Framework for all legal exercises launching after October 2025.
Annual report and accounts 2024-25
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This document outlines the JAC’s performance from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 alongside audited accounts for the year.
Diversity update – July 2025
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Detailing our ongoing work to attract and better prepare potential candidates from under-represented groups for judicial appointments.
Diversity of the judiciary: Legal professions, new appointments and current post-holders – 2025 Statistics
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The Judicial Diversity Forum, chaired by the JAC, has today published the annual Diversity of the judiciary: Legal professions, new appointments and current post-holders – 2025 Statistics.
Judicial salaried part-time working policy
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This policy document applies to salaried judicial office holders to whom Lord Chancellor terms & conditions apply. It sets out the Lord Chancellor’s policy for salaried part-time working.
Guidance on demonstrating legal JSAF skills and abilities
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Document contains positive and negative examples of how to provide evidence against the skills and abilities in the unified Judicial Skills and Abilities Framework (JSAF).
Commissioners and senior staff register of interests 2024 – 2025: October 2024 update
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October 2024 update to the commissioners and senior staff register of interests 2024 - 2025.
JAC Business Plan 2025-26
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The JAC has published its 2025/26 Business Plan, the second year of the wider JAC Business Strategy that was published in May 2024.