Consultation Responses

The Circuit will, from time to time assist with consultation undertaken in connection with the law or the legal profession; from this page you can access our various responses.

Jan 2026 SEC Response to the Bar Council Consultation

Dec 2025 SEC Response to BSB Enforcement Consultation

Dec 2025 SEC Response to BSB Complaints Consultation

Nov 2024	SEC Response - The BSB Consultation on Equality & Diversity
Nov 2023	Joint SEC/CBA Response - London Prisons Survey
Sept 2023	SEC Response - the Law Commission Consultation on Evidence in Sexual Offences Prosecutions
August 2023	SEC Response - Open Justice, The Way Forward
June 2020	SEC Response - The Criminal Legal Aid Review (“CLAR”): ‘accelerated package’ Consultation
May 2020	SEC Reponse - Rapid Consultation: The Impact of COVID-19 measures on the Civil Justice System
May 2020	SEC Response - Homes Office - Pre Charge Bail
October 2018	SEC Response - Amending the Advocates' Graduated Fee Scheme
March 2017	SEC Response - MoJ Consultation - Review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals
March 2017	SEC Response - MoJ Consultation on Reforming the Advocates’ Graduated Fee Scheme
January 2017	SEC Response - Bar Standards Boards Consultation on the Future of Training for the Bar
January 2017	SEC Response - Written Submissions of the South Eastern Circuit to Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Fixed Recoverable Costs, January 2017
November 2016	SEC Response - Modernising Judicial Terms & Conditions
November 2016	SEC Response - Transforming our justice system: assisted digital strategy, online conviction and statutory fixed fines
August 2016	Joint SEC and CBA Response to Sentencing Youths Consultation
June 2016	SEC Response - 'Reforming the courts’ approach to McKenzie Friends’
May 2016	SEC Response - Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea Guideline
March 2016	SEC Response - Interim, Civil Courts Structure Report by Lord Justice Briggs
December 2015	SEC Response - Justice in Times of Austerity
December 2015	The South Eastern Circuit's written evidence to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee Inquiry on Courts and Tribunal Fees and charges dated September 2015, wriiten evidence and oral evidence (Video and Transcript) on 9 December 2015.
November 2015	SEC Response - Preserving and Enhancing the Quality of Advocacy
September 2015	SEC Response - MOJ Consultation on Court Fees
March 2015	SEC Response - HMCTS Consultation - Proposed closure of Wandsworth and Blackfriars
January 2011	Regulating Entities
January 2011	JAG consultation paper on proposals for a quality assurance scheme for criminal advocates – Response of the SEC
January 2011	Response of the SEC to the LSB Referral Fees
January 2011	Green Paper
January 2011	SEC Response to the Law Commission Consultation Paper Unfitness to Plead
February 2011	Breaking the Cycle December 2010 -CM7972
September 2011	SEC Response to the BSB Review of CPD