Civil and Criminal Panel Counsel
Civil Panel Counsel
The Attorney General maintains four panels of Junior Counsel to undertake civil and European Community work for all government departments, plus a number of specialist Standing Counsel posts. There are three London Panels (A Panel for senior juniors, B Panel for middle juniors and C Panel for junior juniors) and a regional panel.
The size of each panel is determined by need. Although appointment to any of the Panels cannot be a guarantee that work will be available, it is intended that each advocate appointed should be given at least a minimum amount of work, and a monitoring process is in place for this purpose.
Further information on the Civil Panel Counsel can be found on the TSol website
Criminal Panel Counsel
In April 2001 the Attorney General announced the setting up of a single prosecution panel of advocates for the following Government Departments and Non-Departmental Public Bodies:
HM Customs & Excise
Department of Trade & Industry
Departments of Work & Pensions/Health
Inland Revenue
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Health and Safety Executive
Environment Agency
The panel is now fully operational. The panel is divided into three lists according to circuit areas:
A - Advocates with 10 or more years experience in actual practice who are able to prosecute up to and including the more complex Crown Court cases.
B - Advocates with 5 or more years experience in actual practice who are able to prosecute up to and including the less complex Crown Court cases.
C - Advocates with 1 to 5 years experience in actual practice (after completion of 12 months pupillage) able to prosecute the most straightforward, routine cases.
Attorney General's Unified List of Prosecuting Advocates part of this website is under development and will be launching shortly.