Details of Crown appointed Advocates and Commissioners (FOI)

Request

A

Please advise where the lists of Crown appointed Advocates and Commissioners can be found.

B

Is there also an organisational chart?

C

All the Jurats are listed on gov.je is there a reason why this is but others are not?

D

Please provide a current list of the judiciary that were once available in the phone directory.

Response

A

The Crown Officers are the Bailiff, Deputy Bailiff, Attorney General and Solicitor General and their profiles are published under “Non-elected office holders” on the States Assembly website. As the information requested is accessible by other means, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. Please see the following link:

States Members filter (statesassebly.gov.je)

B

Information about their departmental organisation is published on www.gov.je pages for the Bailiff's Chambers and Law Officers' Department. The roles of the Crown Officers were reviewed - Introduction to the review of Crown Officers - and a report delivered to the States Assembly on 6 December 2010. As the information requested is accessible by other means, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. Please see links to the relevant pages below: 

Bailiff's Chambers (gov.je)

Law Officers' Department (gov.je)

Introduction to the review of Crown Officers (gov.je)

The Review of the Roles of the Crown Officers Report.pdf (statesassembly.gov.je)

C

Currently information is published in various locations, however there is an active project to deliver a website for the courts which will provide relevant information, such as the list of the judiciary, from all the different Court Service departments in one place.

D

For the moment the current list of the judiciary is published on the Jersey Legal Information Board website. Steps have been taken to ensure that this page includes the Jurats. As the information requested is accessible by other means, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. Please see the following link:

Judiciary (jerseylaw.je)

Article applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.