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Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill [HL]

There is another possible line of inquiry. If there is to be the concept of the Lord Chancellor importing a category of eligibility—although that is not what it says; it says the Lord Chancellor will make a particular appointment, not widen the category of eligibility—it might set some minds more at ease if there were a process of consultation. The difficulty is that any individual is fallible in making appraisals of individuals. An institutional consultation to judge the appropriateness of the circumstances that have given rise to the Lord Chancellor’s view that this person would be eligible seems appropriate.