Richard Clayton: Transforming Judicial Selection Procedures: Privy Council Changes Trinidad High Court Selection Procedure
In A-G of Trinidad and Tobago v Maharaj the High Court and Court of Appeal in Trinidad decided that the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (which appoints High Court judges) … Continue reading
Rachel Jones: Increasing Judicial Diversity – A Constitutional Imperative?
Tuesday marked the launch of JUSTICE’s Working Party report, Increasing judicial diversity. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, spoke at the event, alongside Chair of the Working Party and leading … Continue reading
Jan van Zyl Smit: Judicial appointments in the Commonwealth: Is India bucking the trend?
In recent years many Commonwealth states have adopted, or at least debated, reforms to their legal frameworks for the appointment of judges. The stated objectives of such reforms include strengthening … Continue reading
Comment on India: Chintan Chandrachud: India’s Deceptive Constitution
Every written constitution is supplemented by important unwritten principles: the constitutional law of all nations (whether or not they have a codified constitution) consists of some combination of the written … Continue reading
Greg Weeks: Comment on Australia: A history of judicial disrespect and the current “crisis” in the Queensland judiciary
It has never been a universal requirement that a candidate for senior judicial office is either well respected or even well liked, by the public at large or by his … Continue reading
Colm O’Cinneide and Kate Malleson: Are quotas for judicial appointments lawful under EU law?
In April 2014 Sadiq Khan, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, asked Karon Monaghan QC and Geoffrey Bindman QC to review the options for a future Labour Government to improve … Continue reading
Andrew Lynch: Judicial Appointments in Australia – Reform in Retreat
The creation of formal processes governing the appointment of judges has been a notable element in the broader project of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom over the last 16 … Continue reading
Graham Gee and Kate Malleson: Judicial Appointments, Diversity and the Equal Merit Provision
One of the changes introduced by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 was to amend section 63 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which provides that the Judicial Appointments Commission … Continue reading
Robert Leckey: Constitutionalizing Canada’s Supreme Court
CROSS-POSTED FROM THE I.CONNect BLOG. A dispute over the legality of a politically questionable judicial appointment has resulted in what pundits call a stinging defeat for Canada’s prime minister and a … Continue reading
Alexander Horne: Is there a case for greater legislative involvement in the judicial appointments process?
The dramatic increase in public law and human rights cases coming before the UK Supreme Court (and the Appellate Committee before it) means that the UK’s top court is more … Continue reading
