Sentences with phrase «high judicial office»

Numerous members of chambers have gone on to hold high judicial office.

Like many others who might be reading this for the first time, I too found these machinations for high judicial office distasteful, maybe even sleazy.

All the authorisations the Home Secretary and I do give are subject to independent review by an Intelligence Services Commissioner and an Interception of Communications Commissioner, both of whom must have held high judicial office and who report directly to the Prime Minister.

Notwithstanding the general ideological bias of the legal profession, there have been radical lawyers eminently qualified, on every criterion but this one, to hold high judicial office.

The candidates shall be of high moral character and must either possess the qualifications required for appointment to high judicial office or be jurisconsults of recognized competence.