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Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland
20/08/2010
The Cabinet Secretary for Justice today announced the reappointment of Ms Elspeth MacArthur to the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.
Ms MacArthur was first appointed as a lay member on July 1, 2007 for a three year period. Her background is in human resources. She was Director of Human Resources at the University of Edinburgh until 2007. Ms MacArthur is also a member of the Board of Management at the John Wheatley College, Glasgow and a Director of the Scottish Community Development Centre.
Her background enables her to make a professional contribution to the development of the board's processes and procedures and her experience and commitment is of great value to the Board's work.
This reappointed will run for a further three years from July 1, 2010 until June 30, 2013.
This post is part-time and attracts a remuneration of £290 per day for a time commitment of 20 to 30 days per year.
Ms MacArthur is also a lay member of the Employment Tribunal with a remuneration of £174 per day.
The Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland was established by Ministers in 2002; and it became an independent advisory non-departmental public body on June 1, 2009. The Board has statutory responsibilities under the Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008. The Board's role is to make recommendations to Ministers for appointment to the office of judge, sheriff principal, sheriff, and part-time sheriff as well as other judicial offices set out in the Act.
There are 10 Board Members: three judicial and two legal members (a Judge, a Sheriff Principal, a Sheriff, an Advocate and a Solicitor) and five lay members including the lay Chairing Member.
The lay Chairing Member is Sir Muir Russell, KCB FRSE.
These Ministerial public appointments were made in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland's Code of Practice.
All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees' political activity within the last five years (if there is one to be declared) to be made public. Ms MacArthur has no political activity to be declared.