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Judicial Review: Judges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the process for assigning judges to cases involving legal challenges to Government decisions.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
15 Dec 2025
Answer
22 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the process for assigning judges to cases involving legal challenges to Government decisions.

  2. 15 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Under section 7(2)(c) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the Lady Chief Justice is responsible for the maintenance of appropriate arrangements for the deployment of the judiciary and the allocation of work within courts. Accordingly, the Government ha...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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