Policy background Judicial measures
The judicial measures in the Act enable the flexible use of the judiciary to respond to the changing demands of a reformed courts and tribunals system. These will help the senior judiciary to ensure the right judges are deployed to the right cases, taking account of changes in caseloads of different jurisdictions, which will also have benefits for all users of the courts and tribunals.
	They cover five particular areas: enabling temporarily appointed Deputy High Court Judges to sit in any court or tribunal to which a Deputy High Court Judge could usually be deployed; removing the restriction on a judge being the President of more than one Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal ("FtT") or Upper Tribunal ("UT"); enabling Recorders to sit as judges in the UT and senior employment judges to sit as judges in the FtT and UT; extending the range of High Court judges who can sit as judge-arbitrators; and allowing the President of the Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and Scotland to sit in the Employment Appeal Tribunal. At a minimum, judges will have met the statutory eligibility criteria for their primary appointment and any additional office to which they may be deployed.
	In addition, the judicial measures also contain provision to change judicial titles, to allow titles to reflect changes in the organisation of courts and tribunals including name changes. The title of "Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court" was recently changed to "Insolvency and Companies Court Judge" to reflect the change in name of the court in which they sit. The name of the senior judge of that court could not be changed by secondary legislation and the Act therefore effects this change. It also ensures that the title of that office, and other similar offices, can be changed by secondary legislation in future.