The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) are an independent office which supports the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chief Justice in considering complaints about the personal conduct of judicial office holders.
It was established in 2006, following the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which reformed the way in which judges are appointed, disciplined and removed from office.
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‘The commissioner’s decision is that the JCIO is not a statutory body. He finds that the JCIO is part of the MoJ which is a public authority for the purposes of FOIA. By failing to confirm whether it held the requested information within 20 working days, the MoJ has breached sections 1(1)(a) and 10(1) of FOIA.’
Judicial Conduct Investigations Office must comply with FoI requests
Rules and Regulations
The 2014 Judicial Discipline Regulations and supporting rules came into effect from 18 August 2014
- The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2014
- Judicial Conduct (Magistrates) Rules 2014
- Judicial Conduct (Judicial) Rules 2014
- Judicial Conduct (Tribunals) Rules 2014
- Judicial Conduct (Tribunals) (Amendment of Offices) Rules 2017
- Supplementary Guidance – The Judicial Conduct (Judicial and other office holders) Rules 2014
- Supplementary Guidance – The Judicial Conduct (Magistrates) Rules 2014
- Supplementary Guidance – The Judicial Conduct (Tribunals) Rules 2014
- Employment Tribunal (Scotland) – Making a complaint of Judicial Misconduct about an Employment Judge
How to Complain
The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office can only deal with complaints about the personal conduct of judicial office holders. This means that they cannot accept complaints about a judge’s decision or the way a judge has managed a case.
The JCIO Making A Complaint website contains all the details along with the link to the JCIO portal.
Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC) – 2004
Before the establishment of the JCIO, the responsibility for investigating complaints against judges rested with the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC), which was established in 2004. The OJC was a part of the Ministry of Justice and had the power to investigate complaints made against judges in England and Wales.
However, the OJC was widely criticized for being insufficiently independent and for lacking transparency. In response to these criticisms, the government established the JCIO in 2006 as an independent body to investigate complaints against judges.
Judicial Complaints Investigation Bureau (JCIB) -1991
Before the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC) was established in 2004, the responsibility for investigating complaints against judges in England and Wales rested with the Judicial Complaints Investigation Bureau (JCIB), which was created in 1991.
The JCIB was a division of the Lord Chancellor’s Department (which later became the Ministry of Justice), and it was responsible for investigating complaints about the personal conduct of judges. However, the JCIB was criticized for being insufficiently independent and for lacking transparency, particularly following a high-profile case in 1993 involving a judge who was found to have used racist language.
JCIO Powers
The JCIO is responsible for investigating complaints about the personal conduct of judges, as well as their professional conduct. It has the power to investigate complaints made by members of the public, legal professionals, and other judges.
The JCIO’s investigations are carried out by a team of investigators who are independent of the judiciary.
Overall, the establishment of the JCIO was seen as an important step in ensuring the independence and integrity of the judiciary in England and Wales.
Disciplinary Statements
You can check if a a judge has had any disciplinary action against them as Disciplinary statements are published on the JCIO website and are sorted by year.
The JCIO publication policy states that a statement will normally be published when a disciplinary sanction has been issued to a judicial office-holder for misconduct.
The Lady Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor may decide jointly to:
- issue a statement in any case;
- decline to issue a statement in any case;
- delete a statement prior to the expiration of the relevant publication period.
Publication Periods
Statements published before 22 August 2022
Statements about cases which resulted in a sanction below removal from office will be deleted after one year. Statements about cases which resulted in removal from office will be deleted after five years.
Statements published from 22 August 2022
The following publication periods apply to statements published from 22 August 2022. Following the outcome of the 2020-22 review of the disciplinary system, statements now contain more detail. The JCIO privacy notice has been updated to reflect this change.
Sanction Imposed Publication Period Formal Advice Two Years Formal Warning Four Years Reprimand Six Years Removal from Office (except for failure to meet minimum sitting requirements) Indefinite Removal from Office for failure to meet minimum sitting requirements Five years Requesting a Copy of a Deleted Statement
A copy of any statement which has been deleted following expiration of its publication period can be requested by emailing: general.enquiries@judicialconduct.gov.uk
Requesters must state the name of the office-holder. It will also help to locate statements if requesters give as much information as possible about the nature of the conduct for which the office-holder received a disciplinary sanction, and the year in which they believe the statement was published.
JCIO aims to reply to all requests for deleted statements within 10 working days.
JCIO Publication Policy
JCIO Disciplinary Statements 2024/2025
- Mr Gary Morgan JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 79/24
- Mr David Payne JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 78/24
- Nargis Alsadiq JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 77/24
- Tribunal Judge Jonathan Perkins – JCIO Investigation Statement 76/24
- Elizabeth Slamer JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 75/24
- Mr Thomas Rock JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 74/24
- Dr Atul Gandecha JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 73/24
- Employment Judge David Khan – JCIO Investigation Statement 72/24
- Mr Richard Whitehouse – JCIO Investigation Statement 71/24
- District Judge Michael Nicholson – JCIO Investigation Statement 70/24
- District Judge Keeley Bishop – JCIO Investigation Statement 69/24
- Dr Elizabeth Wooffinden – JCIO Investigation Statement 68/24
- Mr Mohammed Najib – JCIO Investigation Statement 67/24
- Miss Fazila Karolia – JCIO Investigation Statement 66/24
- District Judge (Magistrates Court) Stephen Leake – JCIO Investigation Statement 65/24
- Recorder Yvette Genn – JCIO Investigation Statement 64/24
- Recorder Edward Renvoize – JCIO Investigation Statement 63/24
- Mr Phillip Roberts – JCIO Investigation Statement 62/24
- Mr Jeremy Betts JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 61/24
- Tribunal Judge Lynn Griffin – JCIO Investigation Statement 60/24
- Deputy District Judge Sarah Ellis – JCIO Investigation Statement 59/24
- Mr Alistair Borland JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 58/24
- Recorder Simon Bickler – JCIO Statement 57/24
- Mr Keith O’Brien – JCIO Investigation Statement 56/24
- Miss Tessa Smith JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 55/24
- Ms Lynn Killoran JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 54/24
- His Honour Judge Martin Davis – JCIO Investigation Statement 52/24
- Dr Rajay Arora JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 50/24
- Mrs Jean Banford JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 49/24
- Mr Michael Woodhouse JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 48/24
- Dr Simon Ward – JCIO Investigation Statement 47/24
- Senior Coroner Martin Fleming – JCIO Investigation Statement 46/24
- Mrs Jayne Harding JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 45/24
- Mr Manjit Cheema JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 44/24
- Insolvency and Companies Court (ICC) Judge Catherine Burton – JCIO Investigation Statement 43/24
- Assistant Coroner Heath Westerman – JCIO Investigation Statement 42/24
- Mr Justice Marcus Smith – JCIO Investigation Statement 41/24
- Deputy District Judge Dinshaw Printer – JCIO Investigation Statement 40/24
- Mr Timothy Nathan JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 38/24
- Mr Jeremy Purkis – JCIO Investigation Statement 37/24
- His Honour Judge Steven Everett – JCIO Investigation Statement 36/24
- Mr Richard Morris JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 35/24
- Deputy District Judge Adrian White – JCIO Investigation Statement 34/24
- Ms Natalia Schiffrin JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 33/24
- Mrs Anne Toomer JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 32/24
- Mr Timothy Vogel JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 31/24
- Mr Charles Peck JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 30/24
- Deputy Senior District Judge Tanweer Ikram – JCIO Investigation Statement 29/24
- Mr Justice Picken – JCIO Investigation Statement 28/24
- Mr Justin Johnson JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 27/24
- Declan Ball JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 26/24
- Recorder Andrew Tidbury – JCIO Investigation Statement 25/24
- Ms Shaistah Zeidan JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 24/24
- Mr Andrew Sturgess JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 23/24
- Mrs Ijeoma McDougall JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 22/24
- District Judge Najma Mian – JCIO Investigation Statement 21/24
- Don Wicks JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 20/24
- Mr Nicholas Preston – JCIO Investigation Statement 19/24
- Robert Gonouya JP – JCIO Investigation Statement 18/24
- Mr Justice Francis – JCIO Investigation Statement 17/24
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Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) was last updated on the 15th January 2025
