Judicial website

A new website about the judiciary (www.judiciary.gov.uk) was launched on 3 April 2006. The launch coincided with the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, becoming head of the judiciary in England and Wales.

The new website provides information about the work of the nearly 42,000 judges, magistrates and tribunal judiciary in England and Wales.

The website contains a wide range of topics ranging from a look at a typical day in the lives of judicial office-holders, to the sort of court in which each type of judge sits, to what they wear in court and the correct way in which to address judges either in court or in correspondence.