Judicial Appointments and Retirements (Age Limits) Bill (House of Commons) HCB 69

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For example, figures for solicitors used here differ from the published firm diversity data, which is collected by law firms and published by the SRA based on a slightly different subset of the population. Leavers count those leaving the judiciary for any reason (including retirement, resignation, death in service and removal by the Lord Chancellor) [footnote 8]. The lord chief justice has deployed him to the Northern Circuit, based at Manchester crown court with effect from January 22. As such, an MRA also ensures that the risk of diminishing capacity of individual members of the judiciary which could require individual assessments are avoided. We did not encounter evidence that judicial office holders in any of these groups would be disproportionately adversely affected by proposal to raise the MRA.

The Lord Chief Justice has deployed her to the South Eastern Circuit, based at Thames Magistrates’ Court with effect from 11 April 2023. While raising the MRA may reduce opportunities for new candidates to apply for judicial office in the shorter term, what is not so clear is the overall impact on other protected characteristics.

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e. solicitors who qualified but do not have a current practising certificate and is therefore a larger group [footnote 5]. These were first published together in a combined report in September 2020, and are now published annually. Following the increase of the mandatory retirement age for judicial office holders from 70 to 75 in March 2022, Lord Lloyd-Jones successfully applied to be re-appointed as a Justice. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.His Honour Judge Jeremy Nigel Donne RD KC retires as a Circuit Judge with effect from 1 November 2023. Tanya Richard, of Kern County, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Kern County Superior Court. Helen Pitcher OBE is currently Chairman of the: Criminal Case Review Commission: the Public Chairs Forum and; Advanced Boardroom Excellence Ltd.

A higher MRA would retain skilled and experienced judges for longer, which in turn may address potential concerns about public confidence in an older judiciary and concerns from the judiciary about loss of experienced judges. The statistics provide an overview of the diversity of appointed court judges, tribunal judges, non-legal members of tribunals and magistrates.

The survey showed that there are only small proportions of salaried judges (court judiciary) under 50 years of age in most judicial posts. David Hood, of Stanislaus County, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Merced County Superior Court. A higher MRA would, in the short term, slow down the turnover of the judiciary, which reduces opportunities for women to apply for judicial roles.