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Consultations & Responses
The Circuit will, from time to time, assist with consultations undertaken in connection with the law or the legal profession. From this page you can access our various responses.
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August 2026
SEC Response to the AGFS Consultation
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January 2026
SEC Response to the Bar Council Consultation – PCF and Budget 2026
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December 2025
SEC Response to BSB Complaints Consultation
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December 2025
SEC Response to BSB Enforcement Consultation
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November 2024
SEC Response – The BSB Consultation on Equality & Diversity
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November 2023
Joint SEC/CBA Response – London Prisons Survey
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September 2023
SEC Response – the Law Commission Consultation on Evidence in Sexual Offences Prosecutions
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August 2023
SEC Response – Open Justice, The Way Forward
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June 2020
SEC Response – The Criminal Legal Aid Review (“CLAR”): ‘accelerated package’ Consultation
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May 2020
SEC Response – Home Office – Pre-Charge Bail
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May 2020
SEC Response – Rapid Consultation: The Impact of COVID-19 measures on the Civil Justice System
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October 2018
SEC Response – Amending the Advocates' Graduated Fee Scheme
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March 2017
SEC Response – MoJ Consultation – Review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals
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March 2017
SEC Response – MoJ Consultation on Reforming the Advocates' Graduated Fee Scheme
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January 2017
SEC Response – Bar Standards Board Consultation on the Future of Training for the Bar
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January 2017
SEC Written Submissions to Lord Justice Jackson's Review of Fixed Recoverable Costs
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November 2016
SEC Response – Modernising Judicial Terms & Conditions
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November 2016
SEC Response – Transforming our justice system: assisted digital strategy, online conviction and statutory fixed fines
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August 2016
Joint SEC and CBA Response to the Sentencing Youths Consultation
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June 2016
SEC Response – Reforming the courts' approach to McKenzie Friends
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May 2016
SEC Response – Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea Guideline
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March 2016
SEC Response – Interim Civil Courts Structure Report by Lord Justice Briggs
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December 2015
SEC oral evidence to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee inquiry on Courts and Tribunal Fees and Charges (transcript)
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December 2015
SEC Response – Justice in Times of Austerity
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December 2015
SEC written evidence to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee inquiry on Courts and Tribunal Fees and Charges
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November 2015
SEC Response – Preserving and Enhancing the Quality of Advocacy
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September 2015
SEC Response – MoJ Consultation on Court Fees
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March 2015
SEC Response – HMCTS Consultation on the proposed closure of Wandsworth and Blackfriars
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September 2011
SEC Response to the BSB Review of CPD
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February 2011
Breaking the Cycle (December 2010, CM7972)
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January 2011
Response of the SEC to the LSB Referral Fees Consultation
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January 2011
SEC Response – Green Paper
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January 2011
SEC Response – JAG consultation paper on a quality assurance scheme for criminal advocates
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January 2011
SEC Response – Regulating Entities
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January 2011
SEC Response to the Law Commission Consultation Paper on Unfitness to Plead