Letter: Exams and training to select judges
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Judges should be appointed (pace Lord Williams) from barristers or solicitors under 30 years of age who have gained admission by competitive public examination to a college for the judiciary, whence they would qualify after two years' training ('Selection of judges 'farcical' ', 24 October).
Yours truly,
JOHN GRIFFITH
Marlow,
Buckinghamshire
24 October
The writer is emeritus professor of public law, University of London.
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