Sentences with phrase «senior judicial roles»

Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity Committee, Robin Allen QC said: «We can not go on having no BAME applications for senior judicial roles.

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However, David Thomas, doyen of sentencing experts, having expressed his opposition to the whole idea of a Sentencing Commission, said that if one was established, he had «grave doubts about the wisdom of involving serving senior judges in the activities of such a body... as there is a tendency to confuse the roles of the judges in their different capacities and a consequent tendency to compromise judicial independence.»

The replacement of the Lord Chancellor's role by the JAC was overdue in democratic terms (it is unthinkable that an active politician like Chris Grayling or Jack Straw could make senior judicial appointments); may, in this case, have led to the appointment of the best candidate for a difficult job at a difficult time; but may have impeded the process of creating a more diverse judiciary in the absence of any statutory injunction to take into account strategic development of the judiciary.

The commission to appoint the next President is chaired by a non-lawyer member, Lord Kakkar, and comprises the most senior Justice of the Supreme Court who is not a candidate for the role, another senior UK judge (not a Supreme Court Justice), and representatives from the three independent judicial appointments boards across the UK.

But because of the judicial emergency, the Third Circuit's active judges are now playing a radically smaller than normal role in shaping its precedent: four out of the last five CA3 published opinions were issued by panels with a single active judge and two senior judges.

Until I took senior status, I proudly claimed my own toilet as one of the finer trappings of the judicial role.