Tag: Judicial Diversity
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Byron Karemba: A ‘Brave’ Appointment? On Professor Burrows’ Appointment to the Supreme Court
Introduction The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC) is a much more visible and accessible institution than the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. Through delivering extra-curial speeches on matters of general public importance beyond technical points of law and engagement in an array of ‘outreach initiatives’, individual Justices of the Court are…
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Graham Gee and Erika Rackley: Challenging the JAC
One might be forgiven for thinking that the pressure was easing off on judicial diversity, at least for a while. Following Lord Neuberger’s retirement, Lady Hale is now President of the UK Supreme Court, although she will not be sworn in until October, which is the same month as Mr Justice Singh becomes the first…
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Rachel Jones: Increasing Judicial Diversity – A Constitutional Imperative?
Tuesday marked the launch of JUSTICE’s Working Party report, Increasing judicial diversity. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, spoke at the event, alongside Chair of the Working Party and leading public law barrister Nathalie Lieven QC. She urged those present to take up the report’s vision, and outlined recommendations for systemic, long-term change. Attendees included…
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Colm O’Cinneide and Kate Malleson: Are quotas for judicial appointments lawful under EU law?
In April 2014 Sadiq Khan, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, asked Karon Monaghan QC and Geoffrey Bindman QC to review the options for a future Labour Government to improve diversity in the judiciary. On November 6th their report, entitled ‘Judicial Diversity: Accelerating change’, was published. Starting from the premise that ‘[t]he near absence of…
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Andrew Lynch: Judicial Appointments in Australia – Reform in Retreat
The creation of formal processes governing the appointment of judges has been a notable element in the broader project of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom over the last 16 years. As is frequently acknowledged, the changes introduced by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 were that rare thing – an instance of the executive relinquishing…
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Richard Cornes: 11-1 gender ratio Court’s Achilles Heel: Reporting of the Supreme Court’s start of the year press briefing
A relationship of cooperation but also competing interests On October 2 at 10am, the United Kingdom Supreme Court held an hour long pre-term press-briefing to mark the opening of the Court’s fifth year. This blog looks not only at what was said by the Court, and asked by the journalists on the day, but also…