JSC finally finetunes criteria for judicial appointment

After years of pressure to clarify the considerations that apply to appointments to the bench, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has published a revised criteria for public comment.

The pressure stemmed, in part, from the fact that successive interviews were marred by questioning from commissioners that ranged from arbitrary to outright political ambush, prompting a legal challenge in April last year to the nomination of candidates for appointment to the constitutional court.