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With all due respect to Mr Rosenberg's undoubted expertise, his solution to the judiciary recruitment issue will not work. This is not only an issue about numbers, it goes to the debate about what is the 'right stuff' for a judge. Granted , the current senior judiciary are typical of their kind; hugely experienced in the law and in the arts of litigation. But these are qualities that are most suitable in courts where parties are represented by advocates who have already filleted the factual and legal issues, leaving the judge to peruse their labours and pronounce upon them. Those fat times are gone.
The modern judge has to be a manager of time, obdurate court officials, defiant litigants and public opinion as expressed by an irresponsible and unaccountable press.
I wonder whether a new crop of younger lawyers who are used to a less deferential litigating public might not be a better solution ?