Public Bodies (Reform) Blog 13; Opposition From Lord Chief Justice Reported

This is entry No.13, first published on 17 December, of a blog on Public Bodies Reform. Click here to view the whole blog. If you would like to be notified when the blog is updated, with links sent by email, click here

It is reported (see in particular Lord Norton, a member of the Constitution Committee, writing on Lords of the Blog here) that the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, appearing before the Lords' Constitution Committee on 15 December and echoing the concerns expressed in the Committee's earlier report on the Bill and by Lord Woolf and others at Second Reading, has expressed strong opposition to the inclusion of independent quasi-judicial bodies in Schedule 7 to the Bill. Patrick Wintour, writing about this in the Guardian today, suggests that the Government's plans to abolish a whole raft of...