The following witnesses gave evidence. Those marked * gave oral evidence.

Lord Ackner *

Lord Alexander of Weedon QC Working Party

Ross Gilbert Anderson

Lady Justice Arden DBE, Court of Appeal *

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

Association of Women Barristers

Professor John Bell QC (hon) FBA, University of Cambridge

Lord Bingham of Cornhill *

Blackstone Society

Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA, Oxford University

Colin Boyd QC, Lord Advocate *

Lord Brightman

British and Irish Ombudsman Association

Professor Sir Colin Campbell, Commission for Judicial Appointments *

Lord Justice Carnwath CVO, Court of Appeal

David Christie

Clerk of the Parliaments

Clifford Chance LLP

Lord Cooke of Thorndon

Commission for Judicial Appointments *

Richard Cornes, Essex University

Council on Tribunals

Dr Stephen Cretney QC (hon) FBA, All Souls College, Oxford

Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, Lord President of the Court of Session *

Lord Donaldson of Lymington

Ecclesiastical Judges Association

Dame Sian Elias GNZM, Chief Justice of New Zealand Supreme Court *

Lord Elton TD

Faculty of Advocates *

Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury

Fawcett Society

Edward Garnier QC MP (Harborough, Conservative)

Justice Thomas Gault DCNZM, Judge of New Zealand Supreme Court *

General Council of the Bar of England and Wales *

Professor John Griffith FBA

Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Professor Robert Hazell, UCL Constitution Unit *

Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary *

Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle

Professor J A Jolowicz QC, Trinity College, Cambridge

JUSTICE *

Judges' Council

Justices' Clerks' Society *

Sir Kenneth Keith KBE, Judge of the New Zealand Supreme Court *

Sir Brian Kerr, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland *

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary

Law Society *

Law Society of Scotland *

Sir Thomas Legg KBE QC *

Liberal Democrat Lawyers Association

Lord Chancellor *

Mr DGB Lyon

Lord Mackay of Clashfern KT *

Dr Kate Malleson, London School of Economics *

Magistrates Association *

Professor Hector MacQueen

Lord Morris of Aberavon KG QC

Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead *

Lord Nolan

Professor the Lord Norton of Louth *

Edward Nugee QC

The Odysseus Trust

Aidan O'Neill QC

Sir Hayden Phillips GCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs *

Lord Rees-Mogg *

Royal Society of Edinburgh

Mark Ryan

Sir Konrad Schiemann, Court of Justice of the European Communities

Professor Ian Scott, University of Birmingham

Mr Michael Shrimpton

South Wales Bench Chairmen/Cadeiryddion y Fainc De Cymru

Professor Robert Stevens, UCL Constitution Unit *

Lord Justice Thomas, Court of Appeal *

Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth KCB, Magdalen College, Oxford

Professor Diana Woodhouse, Oxford Brookes University *

Lord Woolf, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales *

The following written evidence has not been printed, but is available for inspection at the House of Lords Record Office (020 7219 5314)

Avon and Somerset Magistrates' Courts

Cambridgeshire Magistrates' Courts Service

Ecclesiastical Law Society

Roger Everest

Lord Simon of Glaisdale QC

Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority

Lancashire Magistrates' Courts Service

Richard Rhodes

University of Kent at Medway, Constitutional Reform Group