Judges - training

Judges training
Unfamiliar courts to sit in	Judges are not necessarily appointed to the courts in which they have practised.
Judicial Studies Board	New judges given three weeks' training on appointment and further training on each promotion. Refresher courses (and additional one-off courses such as the one-day seminars on the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998) are compulsory up to High Court level.
Guidelines on racial awareness September 1999	Have been issued to all judges with the aim of ensuring that they avoid making errors and comments, which damage the reputation of the justice system. The Equal Treatment Benchbook, the first in a series of publications, is published by the Judicial Studies Board and will be followed by other sections on gender and sexual orientation, disability, children and the needs of litigants in person.
Technology	All judges are required to attend training on the use of new computer technology. This was introduced following the Woolf report. Judges have their own law website.