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- Requires accuracy and attention to detail, and excellent organisational and administrative skills
- With experience, progress from administrative assistant to administrative officer, then to executive officer or team manager
- You'll be mainly office-based, but may also spend some time in the courtroom
Court administrative assistant your work would typically include dealing with enquiries from the public, booking dates and times for court hearings, allocating cases to courtrooms, preparing lists of the day's court sessions and keeping ushers informed, making sure that judges, magistrates and lawyers have the right paperwork for each case, following up the court's decision after a hearing (like issuing court orders), taking notes in court for legal advisers, updating the Police National Computer (PNC), and updating court electronic systems.
DAY-TO-DAY DUTIES
- Dealing with enquiries from the public
- Booking dates and times for court hearings
- Allocating cases to courtrooms
- Preparing lists of the day's court sessions and keeping ushers informed
- Making sure that judges, magistrates and lawyers have the right paperwork for each case
- Following up the court's decision after a hearing (like issuing court orders)
- Taking notes in court for legal advisers
- Updating the Police National Computer (PNC)
- Updating court electronic systems
DAY-TO-DAY ENVIRONMENT
You'll be mainly office-based, but will also spend some of your time in the courtroom.
You'll need
A court administrative assistant needs accuracy and attention to detail, and excellent organisational and administrative skills.
There are no set requirements but you'll usually need 5 GCSEs, including English, to work as an administrative officer in HM Courts and Tribunals Service and you must pass enhanced background checks.
Previous office administration or customer service experience will be helpful when looking for work and employers will also be interested in your personal qualities and life experience.
You could take a college course before applying for work, like a Level 2 Diploma in Business Administration, or a Level 2 Certificate or Diploma in Legal Studies.
You could also do a paralegal, court operations or business administrator advanced apprenticeship.
CAREER PROSPECTS
With experience, you could progress from administrative assistant to administrative officer and then to executive officer or team manager.