The Judicial Appointments Commission Regulations 2013

Composition of the Commission

4.—(1) Of the 14 other Commissioners—

(a) 7 must be holders of judicial office,

(b) 5 must be lay members, and

(c) 2 must be persons practising or employed as lawyers.

(2) Of the 7 Commissioners who are appointed as holders of judicial office—

(a) 1 must be a Lord Justice of Appeal;

(b) 1 must be a puisne judge of the High Court;

(c) 1 must be a senior tribunal office-holder member;

(d) 1 must be a circuit judge;

(e) 1 must be a district judge of a county court, a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) or a person appointed to an office under section 89 of the Senior Courts Act 1981(1);

(f) 1 must be a holder of an office listed in paragraph (3);

(g) 1 must be a non-legally qualified judicial member.

(3) The offices referred to in paragraph (2)(f) are—

(a) judge of the First-tier Tribunal appointed under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007(2);

(b) transferred-in judge of the First-tier Tribunal (see section 31(2) of that Act(3));

(c) Regional Employment Judge appointed under regulation 6(1) of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004(4);

(d) Employment Judge (England and Wales) appointed under regulation 8(1) and (3)(a) of those Regulations(5).

(4) Of the 2 Commissioners appointed who are persons practising or employed as lawyers—

(a) each person must hold a qualification listed in paragraph (5),

(b) but they must not hold the same qualification as each other.

(5) The qualifications referred to in paragraph (4) are—

(a) barrister in England and Wales;

(b) solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales;

(c) fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.

(1)

1981 c.54; section 89 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), Schedule 3, paragraph 3 and by Schedule 11, paragraph 26.

(2)

2007 c.15.

(3)

2007 c.15.

(4)

S.I. 2004/1861, amended by S.I. 2008/2683.

(5)

S.I. 2004/1861, amended by S.I. 2008/2683 and 2008/3240.