The members of the commission are appointed from the public, the legal professions, Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, and lay magistracy or non-legal tribunal members.
12 commissioners, including the chair, are appointed through open competition. The other three are selected by the Judges’ Council (two senior members of the courts judiciary) and the Tribunal Judges’ Council (one senior member of the tribunals judiciary).
The chair must always be a lay member while out of the 14 other commissioners:
- five must be lay members
- seven must be judicial members, including two tribunal judges and one non-legally qualified judicial member
- two must be professional members
Our commissioners are supported by the senior leadership team and around 100 staff.
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