{"value":{"id":1697733,"memberId":4941,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice ","uin":"HLWS356","dateMade":"2024-03-21T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":54,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Justice","title":"Judicial Conduct Investigations Office Annual Report 2022–2023","text":"<p>My Right Honourable Friend, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:</p><p> </p><p>“With the concurrence of the Lady Chief Justice, I will today publish the seventeenth annual report of the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO).</p><p> </p><p>The JCIO supports the Lady Chief Justice and the Lord Chancellor in our joint statutory responsibility for judicial discipline.</p><p> </p><p>The judiciary comprises approximately 20,000 individuals serving across a range of jurisdictions. Over the past year, the JCIO received 1,620 complaints against judicial office-holders. A total of 36 investigations resulted in disciplinary action.</p><p> </p><p>I have placed copies of the report in the libraries of both Houses, the Vote Office and the Printed Paper Office. Copies are also available online at: <a href=\"https://www.complaints.judicialconduct.gov.uk/reportsandpublications/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.complaints.judicialconduct.gov.uk/reportsandpublications/</a>”</p><p> </p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1697733","method":"GET"}]}