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1468300

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date	07/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judges: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the specialist digital training on domestic abuse launched by the Judicial College in October 2021 for all family judges, including Recorders and Deputy District Judges, is compulsory; and if so, how often family judges must take that training.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>To preserve the independence of the judiciary, the Lord Chief Justice, the Senior President of Tribunals, and the Chief Coroner have statutory responsibility for judicial training, under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, and Coroners and Justice Act 2009 respectively. These responsibilities are exercised through the Judicial College.</p><p>I understand that the digital training on domestic abuse launched in October 2021 is compulsory training for family judges, magistrates and legal advisers for the 2022-23 training year.</p><p>New training that addresses the attitudinal and behavioural issues raised in recent caselaw, the Ministry of Justice’s Harm Report and the Domestic Abuse Act, was launched in April 2022 and forms a substantial part of compulsory continuation training for family and civil judges.</p><p>The judiciary, supported by professional staff in the Judicial College, are responsible for the design, content, and delivery of judicial training. In developing domestic abuse training, the College drew on external expertise and resources as appropriate. The training programme and training requirements are reviewed regularly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL720 HL721 HL722 question first answered 20/06/2022 11:50:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

1468301

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date	07/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the rollout of new digital domestic abuse training for magistrates and legal advisers that began in October 2021 by the Judicial College is complete; whether it is compulsory; and if so, how often (1) magistrates, and (2) legal advisers, must take that training.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>To preserve the independence of the judiciary, the Lord Chief Justice, the Senior President of Tribunals, and the Chief Coroner have statutory responsibility for judicial training, under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, and Coroners and Justice Act 2009 respectively. These responsibilities are exercised through the Judicial College.</p><p>I understand that the digital training on domestic abuse launched in October 2021 is compulsory training for family judges, magistrates and legal advisers for the 2022-23 training year.</p><p>New training that addresses the attitudinal and behavioural issues raised in recent caselaw, the Ministry of Justice’s Harm Report and the Domestic Abuse Act, was launched in April 2022 and forms a substantial part of compulsory continuation training for family and civil judges.</p><p>The judiciary, supported by professional staff in the Judicial College, are responsible for the design, content, and delivery of judicial training. In developing domestic abuse training, the College drew on external expertise and resources as appropriate. The training programme and training requirements are reviewed regularly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL719 HL721 HL722 question first answered 20/06/2022 11:50:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

1468302

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Judicial College have made with the rollout of new training to address the (1) attitudinal, and (2) behavioural, issues raised in (a) recent caselaw, (b) the Ministry of Justice report Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children Cases, published June 2020, and (c) the provisions of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which took effect in April.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>To preserve the independence of the judiciary, the Lord Chief Justice, the Senior President of Tribunals, and the Chief Coroner have statutory responsibility for judicial training, under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, and Coroners and Justice Act 2009 respectively. These responsibilities are exercised through the Judicial College.</p><p>I understand that the digital training on domestic abuse launched in October 2021 is compulsory training for family judges, magistrates and legal advisers for the 2022-23 training year.</p><p>New training that addresses the attitudinal and behavioural issues raised in recent caselaw, the Ministry of Justice’s Harm Report and the Domestic Abuse Act, was launched in April 2022 and forms a substantial part of compulsory continuation training for family and civil judges.</p><p>The judiciary, supported by professional staff in the Judicial College, are responsible for the design, content, and delivery of judicial training. In developing domestic abuse training, the College drew on external expertise and resources as appropriate. The training programme and training requirements are reviewed regularly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL719 HL720 HL722 question first answered 20/06/2022 11:50:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

1467991

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the time taken to issue grants of probate.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>Average waiting times for probate grants, from July 2019 to December 2021, are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25) and shown on the attached table:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p><p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the Probate Service during the Covid-19 pandemic, and as a result of HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) increasing resources to meet demand, the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between four and seven weeks.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 20/06/2022 11:49:10 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy attachment 1 file name 2022-06-20 HL663 Table 1.xlsx title HL663 Table 1
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten