Considerations by a selection panel15

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.