The Board of Judges Scientific announces that in order to priorities the interests of its shareholders it has decided to pay a special dividend of £2.00 per ordinary share, totaling £12.4 million. The Board has assessed the Group's cash resources, its robust cash generation and the Group's ability to borrow for acquisitions, which result from a sustained period of strong performance. The special dividend will absorb a modest proportion of the resources available to conduct acquisitions and the Board is therefore confident that this special dividend will not interfere with the execution of Judges' unchanged buy-and-build strategy. Payment of the special dividend will be on 10 December 2019 to shareholders on the register on 29 November 2019. The shares will go ex-dividend on 28 November 2019. The special dividend will be funded from existing cash balances.