{"id":75246,"date":"2016-10-21T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e19dfac59bacb7572222e7d9466ab849"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:00:54","slug":"news-story-appointment-of-the-chair-of-the-judicial-appointments-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75246","title":{"rendered":"News story: Appointment of the Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Lord Chancellor confirmed today (21 October 2016) the appointment of Lord Kakkar as the new Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment is for an initial term of 3 years from 3 October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Kakkar is Professor of Surgery at University College London and Chairman of UCL Partners. His research interests are in the field of thrombosis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 he became a Cross-Bench Peer and has held the role of Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission since 2013.  He was appointed to the Privy Council in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Chancellor has appointed Lord Kakkar as the new Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}