Longer Term Programme
A guide to selection exercises planned to launch in the next three years
Please note that this guide is a longer-term view and supplements our forthcoming programme of selection exercises. Therefore, you may wish to check whether the exercise for which you are interested in applying is included in our forthcoming programme.
Candidates should note that advertisements for judicial posts within the Tribunals Service will not always be with the same Chamber. For example, although the expected frequency of Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal is approximately every two years, beginning with the Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber exercise, the next time this exercise launches, it may recruit Fee-paid Judges for a different Chamber.
This exercise guide does not provide precise vacancy details (such as number of vacancies, jurisdiction or region). Those details will become available nearer the launch date of each exercise and will be published in our forthcoming programme. We hope, however, that knowing the cycle of major selection exercises will enable you to plan your judicial career more effectively. The vacancies will be advertised on our website and in Judging Your Future (our email newsletter) nearer their launch dates. Sign up now to keep up to date.
Salaried
High Court
Expected frequency: approximately every eighteen months, beginning with the High Court exercise, which launches in March 2010.
District Judge (Civil)
Expected frequency: every two years, beginning with the District Judge (Civil) exercise, which launches in January 2011.
District Judge (Magistrates' Court)
Expected frequency: every two years, beginning with the District Judge (Magistrates' Court) exercise, which is due to launch in July 2010.
Circuit Judge
Expected frequency: annually, beginning with the Circuit Judge exercise, which is due to launch in March 2010.
Salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal
Expected frequency: every two years, beginning with the Salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber exercise, which is due to launch in March 2011.
Upper Tribunal Judge
Expected frequency: every two years, beginning December 2011. (Please note that Deputy Judges of the Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber launches in January 2011).
Salaried Employment Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales)
Expected frequency: every two years, beginning November 2011.
Fee-paid
Deputy District Judge (Civil)
Expected frequency: every two years, beginning January 2012.
Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Court)
Expected frequency: approximately every two years, beginning September 2011.
Recorder
Expected frequency: every two years, beginning with the Recorder exercise due to launch in March 2011.
Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal
Expected frequency: approximately every two years, beginning with the Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber exercise, which is due to launch in November 2010.
Fee-paid Employment Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales)
Expected frequency: every two years beginning March 2012.
Non Legal
Fee-paid Medical Member of the First-tier Tribunal
Next exercises planned to launch April 2011 and December 2012.
Fee-paid Non-Legal member of the First-tier Tribunal
Expected frequency: every two years beginning December 2011.