 The Seigneur and the Seneschal (who presided) were also members of Chief Pleas.Since 2000, Chief Pleas was working on its own reform, responding to internal and international pressures.On 8 March 2006 by a vote of 25–15 Chief Pleas voted for a new legislature of the Seigneur, the Seneschal, fourteen elected landowners and fourteen elected non-landowners.