The Council is hierarchically inferior to the Wizengamot, which is the Wizard High Court. They also employ a number of guards in their service. This Council towards the end of the First Wizarding War and perhaps sooner was led by Bartemius Crouch Snr, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, was responsible for the deliberation on the Death Eater trials in the early 1980s, shorty after the end of the First Wizarding War.