{"id":290,"date":"2006-03-29T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-29T19:51:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:51:59","slug":"roles-of-the-lord-chancellor-and-lord-chief-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Roles of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;<strong>Concordat<\/strong>&#8221; (or agreement) lays down the role of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice. <\/p>\n<p>From 3 April the Lord Chancellor&#8217;s <strong>role as a judge will cease.<\/strong> <br \/>The Lord Chief Justice will become the <strong>head of the judiciary<\/strong> in England and Wales. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Judicial Independence and Rule of Law<br \/><\/strong>For the first time there will be a guarantee of judicial independence enshrined in statute. This guarantee is backed up by binding the Lord Chancellor and Ministers of the Crown to uphold <strong>judicial independence<\/strong>. The Act also formally recognises the constitutional principle of the <strong>Rule of Law<\/strong> and the Lord Chancellor&#8217;s role in relation to that principle. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthform.info\/lawblog\/files\/lord_chancellor.jpg\" border=0><br \/><strong>JAC<br \/><\/strong>The <strong>Judicial Appointments Commission<\/strong> (JAC) replaces the Commission for Judicial Appointments. <br \/>JAC selects applicants for judicial office, passes the names to the Lord Chancellor who accepts or rejects them. The accepted names are forwarded to <strong>The Queen<\/strong> for appointment. (JAC is not involved in selecting judges above High Court level). <br \/><strong><br \/>JACO<\/strong><br \/>In addition the <strong>Judicial Conduct and Appointments Ombudsman<\/strong> (JACO) is established to give deal with judicial disciplinary matters. <strong>The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2006<\/strong> lays down the procedure to be adopted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Concordat&#8221; (or agreement) lays down the role of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice. From 3 April the Lord Chancellor&#8217;s role as a judge will cease. The Lord Chief Justice will become the head of the judiciary in England and Wales. Judicial Independence and Rule of LawFor the first time there will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}