19 March 2014
Lord Neuberger criticises legal profession's "diversity deficit"
The advancement of those with a less privileged economic, social and educational background is “the biggest diversity deficit and the most difficult inclusivity problem for the legal profession”, Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court, said in the Rainbow Lecture 2014 at the House of Commons last week on minority representation in public and political life. He suggested it might help if applicants to chambers and law firms were required to state whether they went to a state school, and more mentoring and school visits took place.
