Member

Amendment 921ZA, also in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, would require that a legal panel member could be a person who holds or has held judicial office in England, but the explanatory statement accompanying the amendment notes that the intention is to clarify that the legal panel member could be a person who holds or has held judicial office in both England and Wales. It is therefore unclear to the Government what the amendment is trying to achieve. If it is trying to restrict legal panel members to current or past judicial officeholders in England, that is not possible, given that judges of the senior courts are appointed in the unified jurisdiction of England and Wales.