Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Selection and tenure of the
different types of judges
- Selection
- Justices of the Supreme Court are
selected by a Supreme Court Selection
Committee specially convened by the
Lord Chancellor when a vacancy arises
- All other judicial selection is organised by
the Judicial Appointments Commission
- Selection by a mixed panel of
judges, lay people and lawyers
- All appointments now advertised
- Aim to diversify the judiciary
- Mainly by application with refernces
- Interviews assess
attitude and aptitude
- Lord Chancellor
has limited
power to object
selection
- Applicants for higher appointments are
expected to show competence at a lower
level
- Tenure
- Senior judges have security
of tenure under the Act of
Settlement 1701 and cannot
be removed, expect by the
Monarch
- Following a petition to
both Houses of Parliament
- Superior judges can be asked to resign
- Inferior judges can be removed by the Lord
Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice for incapacity or
misbehaviour but must comply with set procedures
- Recorders are only appointed for a
period of five years but must be
reappointed unless there is a good
reason
- Judges retire at 70