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NLJ this week: An imbalance in the judiciary

10 December 2021
Issue: 7960 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Diversity
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Lack of diversity in the judiciary is an issue that has persisted despite the efforts of legislators and the legal profession. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Geoffrey Bindman asks what more can be done

He notes that, of six High Court judges appointed in September and October 2021, all are white barristers, five male and one femal, and four are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and two of London universities.

He writes that, while there is a strategy, ‘the strategy pays little attention to the selection process itself. Its fairness has been taken for granted’. 

Issue: 7960 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Diversity
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Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

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