Part 1: Tribunals and Inquiries Commentary on Sections: Part 1 Section 1: Independence of tribunal judiciary
37.Section 1 ensures that the duty imposed on the Lord Chancellor and other Ministers of the Crown under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (the CRA 2005), to uphold the continued independence of the judiciary, extends to all of the tribunal judges where a tribunal is administered by the Lord Chancellor. To do this, the definition of “the judiciary” in section 3 of the CRA 2005 is amended to make it clear that, so far as they are not already included within that definition, all office-holders listed in Schedule 14 to that Act, and certain additional tribunal office-holders are within that definition.