After a thousand years as our second subject the Lord Chancellor hung up his robes for good when responsibility for maintaining judicial independence transferred in full to the brand new Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA). The new department is responsible for driving forward the government's agenda for reforming the criminal justice system.

AMTEC provided programme management expertise to support the creation of a Supreme Court to replace the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords; the creation of an independent Judicial Appointments Commission; the implementation of policy on the future of Queen's Council; and devolved administration for Scotland and Wales.

Our team supported similar far-reaching changes at the Public Guardianship Office and related agencies within the DCA. The programme outsourced the management of some £1billion pounds of funds from government coffers to private sector fund managers under new investment arrangements.

Inherent in the programme were changes to primary legislation dating back to the 1720 South Sea Bubble, the first great stock market crash in England, which nearly bankrupted the courts.