Modernisation Of The Judiciary

EDM number 456 in 1998-99, proposed by Andrew Dismore on 19/03/1999.

That this House welcomes the Access to Justice Bill [Lords] as the most important reform of the justice system for over 100 years; and urges the Government to consider further reforms to modernise the judiciary during the passage of the Bill, including a transparent system of appointment of judges through a Judicial Appointments Commission, a register of pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests for members of the judiciary, and the allocation of more specialist judges to trials of complex specialist cases.

This motion has been signed by a total of 107 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.