Bailiff’s Chambers
The responsibilities of the Bailiff’s Chambers include the provision of support for the work of the Bailiff (the Bailiff being head of the judiciary, President of the States and civic head of Jersey). Other responsibilities of the Bailiff’s Chambers include supporting the judiciary in criminal and civil matters in the Island’s courts, and issuing a range of injunctions and warrants on a daily basis. The Department also supports the Bailiff in the States (Legislative Assembly) and in his sworn duty to maintain Jersey’s constitutional privileges.

The Judicial Greffier
The Judicial Greffier is the Chief Clerk to the Royal Court (and other Courts).

The Judicial Greffe
The Judicial Greffe provides administrative and secretarial support to ensure the effective operation of the Island’s courts. This includes the Magistrate’s Court; the Youth Court; the Petty Debts Court, the Royal Court (which is the equivalent of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales) and the Court of Appeal. The Judicial Greffe supports a variety of different areas of judicial work, including: intellectual property registrations; family law; land registration and wills.

The Viscount
The Viscount is the executive officer of the Royal Court and of the States Assembly.

The Viscount’s Department
The Viscount’s Department is responsible for ensuring the decisions of Jersey’s Courts and States Assembly are carried out. Principally this means executing orders, such as serving summonses and other legal documents on members of the public and making wage arrests, as well as other general court enforcement duties. In addition, the Department carries out the duties of Coroner, administers désastre (bankruptcy proceedings and investigation) and similar proceedings.

Law Officers’ Department
The Law Officers’ Department is not a department of the Court as such. There are two Law Officers: the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. There are two Law Officers: Her Majesty’s Attorney General and Her Majesty’s Solicitor General. The Department is also responsible for the provision of the criminal prosecution service.
Other services include:
Protecting the interests of the Crown and States in civil proceedings;
Performing the functions and duties of HM Attorney General;
Assisting overseas law enforcement agencies;
Carrying out conveyancing work for the Crown and States of Jersey.

H.M. Attorney General
HM Attorney General in Jersey is appointed by the Crown on the recommendation of the Island’s authorities. He advises both the Crown and the States of Jersey (Legislative Assembly). Where there is a conflict, it is presumed that he would advise the Crown, the Solicitor General, the States. He also advises the Council of Ministers and individual Ministers. In addition, the Attorney in Jersey is Head of the Prosecution Service and therefore prosecutions are brought in his name in the Royal Court, and under his general supervision in the Magistrate’s Court through Centeniers and Legal Advisers. HM Attorney General runs the Jersey equivalent of the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office, and is also responsible for mutual legal assistance given to foreign countries and he therefore operates as the equivalent to the Judicial Co-Operation Unit in the Home Office.

Crown Advocates
Crown Advocates are appointed by Her Majesty’s Attorney General to conduct prosecutions in the Royal Court. Crown Advocates may be members of the Law Officers’ Department or may be independent advocates working in the private sector.

Advocates
Advocates and Solicitors now have a common examination and may be called to the Jersey Bar or registered as Solicitors, as the case may be, provided they have all passed the qualifying examination and have met other requirements set out in the Advocates and Solicitors (Jersey) Law 1997. Advocates have a right of audience in all the Island’s Courts.

Solicitors
Solicitors in Jersey are sometimes referred to as ecrivains. They have a right of audience in the Petty Debts Court, before the Master who deals with preliminary applications in civil cases, before the Registrar and Deputy Registrar of the Family Division of the Royal Court, before a single judge of the Court of Appeal and in the Licensing Assembly.