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Article: ANALYSIS JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS: Secretive, elitist, self-serving: Why Britain's legal system needs radical reform l Sir Colin Campbell's 18-month inquiry upholds four key complaints and calls on the Lord Chancellor to 'demystify' appointments
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2002
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WHEN THE Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, asked a senior
academic to investigate the judicial appointments system, he must
have known he would end up having to make some minor tweaks and
adjustments to the process by which all judges and QCs are called to
public office.
What he probably didn't expect was a 35-page report that begins by
upholding four complaints against his own department and ends by
asking him to reconsider his role in the appointments system.
Sir Colin Campbell's 18-month investigation into judicial
appointments also calls for immediate remedial action, including
greater efforts by the Lord Chancellor to demystify the so-called
"secret soundings", where judges and ...