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Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill [HL]

I wonder whether I might put into the pot a thought that has occurred to me while the debate has been raging, if that word can be used for your Lordships’ proceedings in the Moses Room. Some of this appears to relate to suspicion about what members of the Executive might do in relation to appointments. If I have that right, all this follows the provision under which the Lord Chancellor may appoint. Then it refers to the categories of person, all of whom will have been recommended bythe Judicial Appointments Commission, which will presumably have procedures for checking whether they are solicitors of five years’ standing and all the rest of it. Could we not say that the person should be eligible for appointment if, in the opinion of the Judicial Appointments Commission, they fulfilled the conditions of sub-paragraph (2)(d)?