‘What percentage of court of appeal and high court judges would you guess are women? What about the proportion of black and minority ethnic (BME) members of the judiciary?’
The Guardian, 5th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Appointing a Welsh justice to the Supreme Court should be considered in the near future, a report has said.’
BBC News, 4th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sophie Toms is a deputy district judge who made it on her first attempt. She says shortage of women in the judiciary could be down to confidence issues.’
The Guardian, 30th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The “creaking and outdated” justice system in England and Wales is failing society’s poorest, Michael Gove argued this week.
In his first speech since becoming Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, he said that the best legal provision is the preserve of the wealthy, while victims of crime are “badly” let down. Mr Gove also said that the case for change had been “made most powerfully and clearly by the judiciary themselves”.
In this special edition of Law in Action, the Lord Chief Justice gives his reaction to Michael Gove’s speech.’
BBC Law in Action, 23rd July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Despite recent initiatives, the legal profession remains a bastion of white, middle-class, privately educated males. So what can be done to make it more inclusive? Harriet Swain reports on a roundtable debate.’
The Guardian, 14th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Speech by The Right Hon. The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 9th July 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Speech by Lord Justice Beatson: Closer Engagement with Parliament.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 2nd July 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘The Lord Chief Justice gave a speech on Judicial Leadership at the Conference on The Paradox of Judicial Independence UCL Constitution Unit on 22 June 2015.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 22nd June 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Guidance Notes for Chancery Masters following Changes to Practice Direction 2B.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 16th June 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘It would be wrong for judges to “intervene or to comment while a matter is being hotly debated in Parliament”, Lord Justice Beatson has said.’
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Legal Futures, 15th June 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Conor Gearty unpicks the myths, illusions and downright lies that infect political engagement with human rights in Britain – and discussion of the Human Rights Act in particular.’
LSE Public Lecture, Recorded on 6 November 2014
Source: www.lse.ac.uk
‘In popular perception the Middle Ages was a time of lawlessness and cruelty. And to a degree, that characterisation holds true. Crusades abroad, ill-disciplined governance at home, England in the early thirteenth century was not exactly enlightened.’
The Independent, 7th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Solicitors were the least successful group of people applying for judicial appointment over the last six months, and the situation is getting worse, the latest figures from the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) have shown.’
Litigation Futures, 4th June 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Clive Anderson and guests discuss the controversial suggestion that the UK should withdraw from human rights legislation and re-instate ‘combat immunity’ to protect the British Army from legal action.’
BBC Unreliable Evidence, 20th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Speech by Lord Justice Geoffrey Vos: Presentation to the Conference in Brno Czech Republic.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th May 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘The Lord Chief Justice has a number of statutory functions, the exercise of which may be delegated to a nominated judicial office holder (as defined by section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (the 2005 Act). This document sets out which judicial office holder has been nominated to exercise specific delegable statutory functions.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th May 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘The Judicial Office has launched a pilot programme to improve the diversity of the High Court bench and encourage more applications from senior lawyers and legal academics.’
Litigation Futures, 9th April 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
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