Supreme Court: President Debate

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Supreme Court: President

Lord Faulks Excerpts
Wednesday 16th November 2011

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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My Lords, I could not agree more with my noble friend. The difficulty is that sometimes the idea of choice on merit slips into “chaps like us”, and that is what must be avoided.

Lord Faulks Portrait Lord Faulks
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My Lords, do the Government have any view on the so-called tie-break principle, whereby if there are two candidates of entirely equal merit there will be a favouring of either female applicants or members of the ethnic minorities?