Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017

Bill entitled an Act to establish a body to be known as an Coimisiún um Cheapacháin Bhreithiúnacha or, in the English language, the Judicial Appointments Commission; to provide for the making, through committees of that body, of recommendations in respect of appointments to certain judicial offices; to make provision for persons of a lay character, as well as judges and legal practitioners, to be members of that body and of those committees and to provide, in the case of any such committee, that the particular judges to be members of it shall include a judge serving at the level of the courts system to which the committee's business relates; to amend the qualification requirements for appointment to judicial office; to enable, through other procedures, the making of recommendations in respect of appointments to senior judicial offices that do not fall within the remit of the foregoing body; to establish a Judicial Appointments Commission Office; to dissolve the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board; for those and other purposes to amend or repeal certain provisions of the Courts and Court Officers Act 1995 and the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 and to provide for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters