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  Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill - Third Reading
  
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  @ MP voted aye in favour of a series of proposals to reform the court and tribunal system.
  @ MP voted no against a series of proposals to reform the court and tribunal system.
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of a series of proposals to reform the court and tribunal system.
  
  
  MPs were considering the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill.[1][2]
  
  The provisions of the Bill sought:
  
  * to replace justicesâ clerks and assistant clerks with authorised persons.
  * to expand the areas in which authorised staff exercise judicial functions. 
  * to enable temporary judges, appointed without a Judicial Appointments Commission selection process, to sit in any court, rather than just the high court or crown court. 
  * to enable Recorders to hear cases in the Upper Tribunal. 
  * to allow an individual to preside over more than one Chamber in the same Tribunal 
  * to change the title of the office of "Chief Bankruptcy Registrar" to "Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge". 
  * to enable the judicial titles of other senior masters and district judges of the Senior Courts to be changed in future by secondary legislation
  
  
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the Bill be now read the Third time.
  
  support for this motion enabled the Bill to continue on its path to becoming law.
  
  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/courtsandtribunalsjudiciaryandfunctionsofstaff.html Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill webpage, Parliament.uk]
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0286/en/18286en06.htm Explanatory notes to the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill]
  
  
  
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