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- Kim Philby#9330
Dear Citizens.
In the current Court term we have been discussing various options to improve the Court as such. One of the simpler ideas is a public list of available THOs, where interested and available citizens can sign up. The Court has often employed an informal shortlist of candidates, drawn mostly from former Justices, members of the Bar, people who have submitted useful and well-reasoned briefs, and retired senior officials. Our intention is to improve transparency by committing this shortlist to paper; improve engagement with the Court by opening it up to people who do have good judgement and legal reasoning skills, but who do not yet have the resume or name-recognition to make the informal shortlist; and improve Court administration by maintaining a public shortlist of people who are able and available to step in when the need arises.
The shortlist itself would be a public-facing thread that is initially populated with the groups mentioned earlier: Former Justices, members of the Bar, and other Court-adjacent citizens, with a note on their current status (Interested and available). Any interested citizen can ask to be added to the list, with any Justice able to add or remove names from the list. Disagreements between Justices would be decided by the majority if necessary.
The shortlist is not meant to constrain future Courts to necessarily select from only the shortlist. It is meant as an administrative aid, not a straitjacket. Furthermore, as it is with any change to Court procedures or standing documents that are set by the Court, this can be amended or abolished by any future Court.
We seek public feedback to this proposal, and we will do so for future proposals to come in this term, regardless of whether those proposals can be implemented by the Court alone or requires new legislation. This is done to arrive at the best decision, and also to maintain the Court's impartiality and legitimacy. If we propose something that could jeopardise either, we wish to know sooner rather than later.
In the current Court term we have been discussing various options to improve the Court as such. One of the simpler ideas is a public list of available THOs, where interested and available citizens can sign up. The Court has often employed an informal shortlist of candidates, drawn mostly from former Justices, members of the Bar, people who have submitted useful and well-reasoned briefs, and retired senior officials. Our intention is to improve transparency by committing this shortlist to paper; improve engagement with the Court by opening it up to people who do have good judgement and legal reasoning skills, but who do not yet have the resume or name-recognition to make the informal shortlist; and improve Court administration by maintaining a public shortlist of people who are able and available to step in when the need arises.
The shortlist itself would be a public-facing thread that is initially populated with the groups mentioned earlier: Former Justices, members of the Bar, and other Court-adjacent citizens, with a note on their current status (Interested and available). Any interested citizen can ask to be added to the list, with any Justice able to add or remove names from the list. Disagreements between Justices would be decided by the majority if necessary.
The shortlist is not meant to constrain future Courts to necessarily select from only the shortlist. It is meant as an administrative aid, not a straitjacket. Furthermore, as it is with any change to Court procedures or standing documents that are set by the Court, this can be amended or abolished by any future Court.
We seek public feedback to this proposal, and we will do so for future proposals to come in this term, regardless of whether those proposals can be implemented by the Court alone or requires new legislation. This is done to arrive at the best decision, and also to maintain the Court's impartiality and legitimacy. If we propose something that could jeopardise either, we wish to know sooner rather than later.
