18. The committee determines the competence of the candidate for appointment as a judge. For that purpose, it assesses the personal and intellectual qualities of the candidate as well as his experience.
The committee assesses, in particular, the candidate’s degree of legal knowledge in the areas of law in which the judge will perform his duties, as well as his capacity for judgment, his insight, his ability for evaluation, his sense of decision and his concept of a judge’s duty.
R.R.Q., 1981, c. T-16, r. 5, s. 18.