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		<title>Application form, with self assessment</title>
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Candidates will be required to complete an application form, to  include a “self assessment”, allowing the candidate to provide his or  her own evidence against published competences.  The form will also  require candidates to disclose criminal convictions or findings of  professional misconduct. The Selection Panel takes the view that under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1008</link>
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		<title>Infrastructure, including Secretariat</title>
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The scheme will be administered by its own Secretariat, with its own  premises, independently of the DCA, the Bar Council and the Law Society.

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		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1006</link>
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		<title>Initial Filter</title>
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There will be no initial filter.  References will be sought on all  candidates.

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		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1011</link>
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		<title>Professional Conduct Checks</title>
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 The list of candidates will go, confidentially, to the senior  member of staff with responsibility for professional conduct at each of  the professional bodies.
This will be to ensure any findings, or pending complaints, of  misconduct are identified.
Where a finding or complaint had not been identified or addressed by  the candidate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1013</link>
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		<title>References from judges and arbitrators</title>
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Four references will be taken in writing.
Candidates will be required to list 12 judges in front of whom they  have appeared substantively in cases of substance, complexity or  particular difficulty or sensitivity over the last 2 years (including  but not limited to High Court and above, Circuit Judges, deputy High  Court [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1037</link>
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		<title>References from practitioners</title>
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Three references will be taken in writing.
Candidates will be required to identify 6 practitioners by whom they  have been led (or, if applicable, whom they have led) or against whom  they have appeared, in cases of substance, complexity or particular  difficulty or sensitivity over the last 3 years (or outside that 3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1036</link>
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		<title>References from professional clients and clients</title>
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Two references will normally be taken.
Candidates will be required to identify 6 individuals who have been  (in their own right or on behalf of their firm or employer) professional  clients, clients or client proxies, in cases of substance, complexity  or particular difficulty or sensitivity over the last 3 years (or  outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1034</link>
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		<title>Consideration of References</title>
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Before any decision to interview, it will be open to the Selection Panel members (or senior members of the Secretariat under their direction) to approach referees where on the face of it the reference appears to be lacking in evidence.

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		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1033</link>
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		<title>Interview and assessment of the candidate</title>
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Each application, with the self-assessment and all references, will  be read by 2 Selection Panel members (one lay; one professional) in  preparation for interview.  Any application which appears to the Panel  members on the information available not to demonstrate the competencies  sufficiently to make them at that stage a credible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1031</link>
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		<title>The Selection Panel</title>
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The Selection Panel will be independent, will act in the service of  the public interest, will include “lay” (non-lawyer) membership and must  command respect.
The Selection Panel will consist of a minimum of 9 members,  including a retired senior judge, senior lawyers, (among whom there  should be both barristers and solicitors), and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qcappointments.org/?p=1029</link>
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