Who’d be a (full-time) judge?
Tribunals can’t get enough of them. Are bench blockers to blame?
Latest figures show that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to recruit full-time judges to sit in the tribunals of England and Wales.
Asked last year to fill 70 vacancies in the first-tier tribunal, the Judicial Appointments Commission could manage only 47 recommendations — although there were 360 applications.
In the employment tribunal, things were ev…
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