After relative inactivity, it was eventually wound up through the Supreme Court Act 1981, which contained no provisions for its continued existence, something Denis Dobson attributes to newer bodies which performed the duties the Council had originally been created to do.
[1] The 1873 bill's eventual clauses contained, thanks to the influence of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, provisions for the creation of a Council of the Judges of the Supreme Court.
[3] In 1892 the Council considered further reform of the court system to deal with growing backlogs in the Chancery Division and the cost of appeals to the House of Lords.
At the same time, Sir Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson published a paper that the executive's financial and managerial control over the judiciary was having a negative effect on judicial independence.
On 11 January 1988 the proposal for a new Judges' Council was discussed at the annual meeting of the High Court of Justice,[8] where it was formally established under Lord Lane.
[10]The Council's initial remit was to promote co-operation between the judiciary and executive, maintain judicial independence and make court procedure more efficient.