Recruitment of Magistrates

The Advisory Committee oversees a recruitment programme to ensure that the two Justice areas in Cumbria have a full complement of magistrates (volunteers who hear cases in courts in their community.)

The Advisory Committee has two roles:

• to establish interview panels consisting of a balance of magistrates and lay members and ensure that the Advisory Committee itself has an appropriate balance of skilled and diverse members to populate the interview panels
• to promote and publicise at local level a succession of magistrate recruitment campaigns

From 1st April, Cumbria and Lancashire will, at different times throughout the year, be inviting applications to become magistrates in both the criminal and the family courts:   www.gov.uk/become-magistrate