Christopher Stephens, the new Chairman of the Judical Appointments Commission, talks to Counsel’s David Wurzel about the Commission’s aims and his role.
“I arrived knowing very little in February”, Christopher Stephens, the new Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission (the “JAC”) confessed when I met him in September. Since then, he says, “I have learned my way through your profession”. He did however have a head start in respect of recommending people for appointments: before becoming a Civil Service Commissioner and a member of the Senior Salaries Review Board he spent 30 years in Human Resources.