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The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) recommends candidates for appointment as judges of the Appeal Court and to all judicial offices listed in Schedule 14 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002.[1]
The JAC is a non-departmental public body which was created on 3 April 2006 through the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002.
The Appropriate Authority (either the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice or Senior President of Tribunals) can accept or reject a JAC recommendation, or ask the Commission to reconsider it. If the Appropriate Authority rejects a recommendation or asks for reconsideration they must provide written reasons to the JAC.
The Act also established the Lord Chief Justice as head of the judiciary of Northern Ireland.
Under the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act Parliament gave the JACNI the following statutory duties:
to select candidates solely on merit;
to select only people of good character; and
to have regard to the need to encourage diversity in the range of persons available for judicial selection.
Remit
The JAC is an independent commission that selects candidates for the following judicial office in courts and tribunals in Northern Ireland:
Judge, temporary judge of the High Court
County court judge, Deputy county court judge
Resident magistrate and deputy resident magistrate
Coroner and deputy coroner
Statutory officer, Deputy for a statutory officer, Temporary additional statutory officer
Chief Social Security Commissioner for Northern Ireland, Social Security Commissioner for Northern Ireland, Deputy Social Security Commissioner for Northern Ireland
Chief Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland, Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland, Deputy Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland
President of appeal tribunals, Members of appeal tribunals
Member of Care Tribunal
Chairman of an Appeal Tribunal
President, acting president, vice-president, acting vice-president, chairmen of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal
President, Deputy President, other members, temporary members of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland
President of the Special Educational Needs and Disability for Northern Ireland
Member of the panel of persons who may serve as chairman of that Tribunal
Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Northern Ireland
Lay magistrate
Member of a deregulation tribunal
Chairman of a Misuse of Drugs Tribunal
President, Deputy President of Pensions Appeal Tribunals and Member of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal
Chairman or Deputy of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal for the purpose of proceedings brought before it in Northern Ireland
Member of the panel of persons to act as chairmen of Reinstatement Committees sitting in Northern Ireland
President of the Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal
Member of the Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal
President or other member of the Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland
Adjudicator and Chairman of Criminal Injuries Compensation
Chairman of an Adoption Appeal Tribunal
Member, president of the Victims' Payments Board
Members
The Judicial Appointments Commission comprises 11 commissioners. Five, excluding the Chairman, are appointed through open competition.[2]
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