25 September 2019
A ‘pool of judges with relevant expertise’ will be kept on standby to deal with Brexit contingencies, it has emerged.
Administrative Court Office user group minutes from March, made public this month, reveal the group’s response to a query on Brexit planning. As well as the pool of judges, additional staff have been recruited to deal with any increase in work and ‘changes have been made to the court’s IT systems to allow Brexit related work to be specifically identified by the court lawyers’. Mr Justice Supperstone confirmed that the specialist judges would not sit at weekends but would be available at critical periods.
