The British model of judicial appointments

Abstract

This paper studies the Constitutional Reform Act published in the 2005 in United Kingdom. This important reform means a deep constitutional change in an unwritten constitution model. The first part shows, critically, the old model explaining how the judges were appointed. The second part analyses the new model in which the most relevant role is played by the Judicial Appointments Commission, this new public body designed as recommendation body appoints the Judiciary in United Kingdom and it’s being representative of the deepest change amid the classical concept of Judicial independence. More than ten years before the JAC’s creation, important inputs could be commented.