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Most serving judges said they would discourage suitable lawyers from seeking to join the bench for four reasons: likely pension cuts, reduced pay, constant policy changes and lack of administrative support. At the same time, though, senior judges have expressed private concerns at the difficulty of persuading high-quality candidates to apply for appointment to the more specialised areas of high court work in England and Wales.
An overwhelming majority of judges said that higher remuneration was the one factor that would persuade them not to retire early. That view has been held for some years. But it was a message that the former lord chief justice of England and Wales, Lord Judge, was reluctant to put his name to — not least because he perceived that the public would have no sympathy for relatively highly paid professionals seeking to maintain their pay levels at a time when others were subject to cuts.
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