Judicial Appointments Committee kicks off selection process for new Lord Chief Justice
The Judicial Appointments Committee (JAC) has kicked off the selection process to appoint a new Lord Chief Justice (LCJ) following the retirement of Lord Judge this September. The JAC has set up a selection panel to oversee the interviews for the role, which will take place in early July. The panel will make its decision and report to the Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling, who can accept the selection, reject it or require the panel to reconsider.
May 08, 2013 at 04:42 AM
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The Judicial Appointments Committee (JAC) has kicked off the selection process to appoint a new Lord Chief Justice (LCJ) following the retirement of Lord Judge this September.
The JAC has set up a selection panel to oversee the interviews for the role, which will take place in early July. The panel will make its decision and report to the Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling, who can accept the selection, reject it or require the panel to reconsider.
The panel includes: JAC chairman Christopher Stephens; Lord Neuberger, the President of the Supreme Court; Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls; and judicial appointments commissioners Noel Lloyd and Dame Valerie Strachan.
Lord Judge is stepping down after nearly five years in the role, having first been appointed in October 2008 when he replaced recently retired Supreme Court president Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers.
Candidates expected to be in the running to replace Lord Judge include: Court of Appeal judge Lady Justice Hallett; Lord Justice Hughes, the vice-president of the criminal division; Queen's Bench Division president Lord Justice Thomas; and Lord Justice Leveson, the head of the sentencing council for England and Wales who recently oversaw the high-profile Leveson Inquiry into media standards.
Grayling said: "The justice system and judiciary needs to continue to reform. This reform will involve changes to the judiciary itself and how they work, as well as reform to the wider justice system in which the judiciary will need to play their part.
"The LCJ will need to secure greater efficiency, build organisational capability, reach out to bring in a wider range of people with diverse backgrounds and skills to the judiciary and develop this group to provide the next generation of senior judges. The LCJ will be a vigorous, modernising, and imaginative individual."
Candidates should email their intent to apply to the JAC by no later than 9 May. It is expected that the successful candidate will take up appointment on 1 October this year.
For full details and an application form visit the JAC website.
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