Member

Length of tenure here matters to me. People should not be reappointed. The Bill’s sponsors have put forward five years; it may be that that should be six or seven years. I have not gone into that level of detail, but I do believe that it should be a one-term appointment and that people should not be reappointed. Although I understand that there may be an element of people saying, “Well, they’re only just getting used to the role”, and so on, recognising the fairly narrow number of people who are likely to be eligible for this role, the retired judge’s view of this legislation should not matter. We should be able to find people who would act on this. We certainly seem to be able to find judges to run public inquiries that go on for multiple years; I do not see why this would be any different.