As the Deputy may be aware, permanent and temporary assignments in the District Court are provided for under Schedule 6 of the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961, as amended. All serving District Court Judges who have been assigned to a District are currently permanently assigned.
The Deputy will appreciate that the only information in the possession of the Minister, from which it might be possible to obtain the facts sought by the Deputy, would be documentation submitted by applicants to the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board which was subsequently provided by JAAB to Government in the course of the judicial appointment process. Thus the additional information requested by the Deputy regarding the length of time each judge sits in the court area that they previously practised in and the length of time they practised law in that district cannot be provided as Section 20 of the Courts and Court Officers Act 1995 provides that "all proceedings of the Board and all communications to the Board shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed expect for the purposes of this Act".