The Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013

Considerations by a selection panel

15.—(1) This regulation applies to selection by a panel appointed under regulation 9(2).

(2) Before selecting a person for the purpose of regulation 4(1)(c) the panel must consult—

(a) the General Council of the Bar where the person is qualified as a barrister in England and Wales;

(b) the Law Society where the person is qualified as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales;

(c) the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives where the person is qualified as a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.

(3) Before selecting a person for appointment as the chairman or one of the other lay members, the panel must consider—

(a) whether the person has exercised functions that appear to the panel to be of a judicial nature and such as to make the person inappropriate for the appointment;

(b) whether any past service in a capacity listed in regulation 13(11)(a), (b) or (e) or as a person employed in the civil service of the State appears to the panel to make the person inappropriate for the appointment;

(c) whether the extent of any present or past party political activity or affiliations appears to the panel to make the person inappropriate for the appointment.

(4) The panel must select persons for appointment as lay members (including the chairman) with a view to securing, so far as practicable, that the persons so appointed include at any time at least one who appears to the panel to have special knowledge of Wales.