HC Deb 23 March 2000 vol 346 cc687-8W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what qualifications are required for appointment as an Immigration Appeals adjudicator; and if he will make a statement. [115986]

Mr. Lock

Schedule 3 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 states that a person is qualified for appointment as an adjudicator only if:

  1. (a) he has a seven year general qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;
  2. (b) he is an advocate or solicitor in Scotland of at least seven years' standing;
  3. (c) he is a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland or solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland of at least seven years' standing; or
  4. (d) he has such legal and other experience as appears to the Lord Chancellor to make him suited for appointment as an adjudicator.