we've had non-lawyers picking judges for too long. the current prime minister is an economist. the guy before that was a drama teacher. the guy before that was also an economist. we haven't had a lawyer in charge for 20 years.
the current selection process is designed to give the prime minister flexibility to choose, which may have made sense when the prime minister was a lawyer, but is a severe problem in an era were the prime minister regularly has no legal credentials. it makes no sense to ask a drama teacher or an economist to hire a judge.
a superior court justice is an important job and should not be a first judicial appointment, but the rulings i'm getting are from people hired directly from the bar that have no previous judicial experience, and that lack of experience is apparent in their frequently wrong and poor rulings.
there should be a rule in place that a job application to be a superior court justice requires previous judicial experience, and that superior court judges cannot be selected directly from the bar, without previous experience.