LAW ESSAY: The Judiciary OF THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM EXPLAIN HOW THE JUDGES ARE APPOINTED AND HOW BOTH THE SELECTION AND TRAINING OF THE JUDGES HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE COURTS & LEGAL SERVICES ACT 1990? (ANS) The appointment of judges transpires where the Lord Chancellor (the head of the judiciary) who is key, has the jurisdiction to appoint or nominate all lower ranks of the judiciary. However, even though the higher ranks of the …showed first 75 words of 837 total…

…showed last 75 words of 837 total…with the educational background and the level of society that they where brought up in. As it is suggested that "at higher levels judges tend to come from the upper levels of society" with many having been educated at fee paying schools (private schools) and nearly all attending oxford or Cambridge university this is evident where of the 85 of the judges appointed from 1997 to the mid 1999, 73% had been to public school and 79 percent to Oxbridge.