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Bureau of Courts

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The Bureau of Courts is part of the Parliament of Law.

❊ EFF 01 Jan 01
Registry CPL-01 Reg 01 of 09 ΰΌΆ Est 1962
Headquarters Oslola Federal Courts Building
Scale 29 offices
60,640 staff
Bureau of Courts
Bureau of the Parliament of Law
Employees 60,640
Established 1962
Headquarters Federal Courts Building, Oslola
Service Commonwealth Judicial Service

The Bureau of Courts performs court administration in the Commonwealth. Court fees are not charged in the commons and few disputes involve money, so much of the work performed by the bureau deals with small disputes over housing, work and property in the tribunals, rather than traditional civil suits. It nonetheless also keeps the criminal courts and the courthouses of the republics, and generally keeps every part of a court not under the purview of the Commonwealth Judicial Service.

The bureau is also responsible for juries and court records, as well as the circuit courts of the small and remote republics. It operates its circuit offices in Sal.

There are three levels of court in the Commonwealth: municipal courts, republic courts and federal courts, which include the Supreme Constitutional Court. The bureau is responsible for all of them, but the courts operate separately, and their judges are officers of the Judicial Service, a mandatory service. The municipal courts are the heliaea, which handle local disputes and minor criminal matters. Republics have only magistrates, and the republic courts are simply courts in the federal system.

The courts are divided into ten circuits, which mirror the circuits of the Police Service and act as legal areas. Each has the same name and seat as its police circuit, and the Far Atlantic circuit, for example, sits at Ascension and also visits Helena. The circuit offices in Sal keep the calendar of sittings for all ten.

The bureau also keeps the registry of the tribunals. Besides the labour, housing and property tribunals, these include the health tribunals of the Parliament of Health and the Immigration Appeals Tribunal of the Bureau of Citizenship.

Since the Civil Rights guarantee interpreted proceedings in criminal trials, the bureau has interpreters for all 16 official languages, and its Interpreters Office is in Antigua. It was established in 1962 as the Federal Courts Department, and took its present name in 1984, when the magistrates of the republics were brought together in the Judicial Service. Today, it has about 60,000 staff.

Departments 7 departments, 29 offices, 60,640 staff

General Headquarters

2,180

Direction of the body; parliamentary business, legal advice, press and staff.

  • Office of the Registrar of Courts

  • Parliamentary Branch

  • Press Office

  • Establishments Office

  • Recruitment Office

Department of Court Administration

21,360

Court buildings, staff, lists and sittings.

  • Federal Courts Office

  • Republic Courts Office

    20 stations

  • Lists Office

    18 stations

  • Court Buildings Office

Department of Circuit Courts

3,790

The travelling circuit for the remoter republics.

  • Circuit Calendar Office

  • Circuit Establishments Office

  • Outer Islands Office

    8 stations

Department of Tribunals

3,060

The specialist tribunals.

  • Office of Administrative Tribunals

  • Office of Labour Tribunals

  • Office of Housing & Property Tribunals

  • Tribunals Secretariat

Department of Court Officers

5,530

Interpreters, shorthand writers, court records and juries.

  • Interpreters Office

    12 stations

  • Shorthand Writers' Office

  • Office of Court Records

    15 stations

  • Jury Office

    15 stations

Service Branches

20,760

Regional court offices.

  • Boreal Court Area

    4 stations

  • Austral Court Area

    7 stations

  • Occidental Court Area

    6 stations

  • Oriental Court Area

    3 stations

Department of Courthouses

3,960

The standard plan; courthouse reading rooms; court security and ushers.

  • Standard Plans Office

  • Reading Rooms Office

    18 stations

  • Ushers' Office

    25 stations

  • Court Security Office

Interwork Detachments What is a detachment?
Outer Circuit Detachment
with Common Navy, Bureau of Representations
Passage of the outer circuit to the Falklands, Helena and Sude by naval transport
Court Languages Detachment
with Bureau of Languages
Interpreters for the minority languages of the republic courts
Constituents 6 bodies
Federal Courts Office
The federal courts and the Federal Courts Building.
Republic Courts Office
Courthouses and staff of the republic courts.
Circuit Office
The travelling courts of the small and remote republics, at Sal.
Tribunals Registry
Registry of the labour, housing and property tribunals.
Juries Office
Jury lists and the summoning of jurors.
Court Interpreters’ Office
Interpreters and shorthand writers for the courts.