NRI, appointed chairperson of the Britain’s Judicial Appointments Commission

London, Nov. 6, 2005
Ramesh Talwar


NRI, (non-resident Indian) Usha Prashar has been appointed as the first chairperson of the Britain’s Judicial Appointments Commission. She gets power to appoint judges.

Baroness Usha Prashar will lead a team of 14 commissioners assigned with the vital role of appointing judges from April 2006 onwards.

Usha Prashar is currently the First Civil Service Commissioner and is a former executive chairman of the Parole Board. She has been a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 1999.

Her appointment has been widely welcomed by Indians and NRIs worldwide

• Since August 2000, Lady Usha Prashar, CBE has been the first civil service commissioner.
  
  
• October 1997- October 2000 she was the executive chairman of the Parole Board of England and Wales
  
  
• 1991- 1997 Lady Prashar had a portfolio of activities which included membership of the royal commission on criminal justice, the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on legal education and conduct, and the Arts Council For eight years she was a non-executive director of Channel 4 and a non-executive director of the Energy Saving Trust for six years. From 1993 to 1996 she was a member of the Ealing Hounslow and Hammersmith HA.
  
  
• 1986- 1991 she was the director of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, an umbrella body for voluntary organisations in England.
  
  
• 1984- 1986 she was a fellow with the Policy Studies Institute, where her research included enquiry into primary health care in London funded by the King's Fund, which resulted in a report: Acheson and After - Primary Health Care in the Inner City.
  
  
• 1976- 1984 she was the director of the Runnymede Trust. As its director for seven years Lady Prashar had enormous influence in the development of social and public policy affecting minorities.
  
  
• 1971- 1976 she was a conciliation officer with the former Race Relations Board

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