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Article: A flexible approach for a more representative judiciary

A campaign of “mythbusting”, flexible working opportunities and more judicial job shadowing are some of the recommendations of Baroness Neuberger’s report into judicial diversity. The final report of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Panel on Judicial...

Article: ADOPTION OF 5 CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISIONS

At the end of 2008, the Council definitively adopted 5 important Framework Decisions, all long-standing proposals, and some of whichhave been in the works for several years: on combating racism and xenophobia; on the protection of personal data...

Article: Awareness Toolkit training

Equality & DiversityIn response to a growing demand from the Bar for Equality and Diversity Awareness Training, and to the recommendation for such training in the Neuberger Report on Entry to the Bar, the Bar Council Equality and Diversity Committee...

Article: Bar Council welcomes panel on fair access to the professions

 THE Chairman of the Bar Council, Desmond Browne QC, welcomed the first meeting of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions, part of the Commission on social mobility chaired by former Cabinet Minister the Rt Hon Alan Milburn MP. The Bar continues ...

Article: Bar welcomes report on Judicial Diversity

THE Bar Council has welcomed the publication of the final report from the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity. Chaired by Baroness Neuberger DBE, the Panel has published a report which sets out proposals for a co-ordinated programme...

Article: Bar ‘ready to redouble efforts’ on Social Mobility

THE Bar is ready to redouble its efforts to promote fair access to the profession, Bar Council Chairman, Desmond Browne QC said today. His remarks come on the eve of the publication of the final report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions....

Article: Bar ‘setting the pace’ on social mobility - new report

THE Bar Council, in conjunction with the Inns of Court, has launched No bar to the Bar, a review of the diverse measures adopted by the profession to help all those of ability to have access to a career as a barrister, regardless of their background....

Article: BSB equality and diversity action plan

The Bar Standards Board has developed an equality and diversity action plan for 2009/10, which follows on from the 2007/08 action plan. The plan was drafted in consultation and liaison with the Director of the BSB and team leads and was approved by...

Article: Chambers enter the diversity league

Barristers’ chambers have made a respectable debut in the Diversity League Tables. Chambers were included in the annual league table, run by the Black Solicitors Network, for the first time this year, with 23 out of 60 invited sets agreeing to take...

Article: COMBAR takes positive action

DiversityThe Commercial Bar Association (“COMBAR”) has published a menu of action to address the “unjustifiable” under-representation of women and black and ethnic minority groups within chambers.

Article: Diversity in the legal profession

Barristers’ chambers should adopt formal, regulated mentoring schemes to encourage diversity, a Legal Services Board (“LSB”) report has recommended.

Article: DPP praises equality and diversity rule

Bar code of conductKeir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has backed new equality and diversity provisions that are to be included in the Bar Code of Conduct and Practising Rules.

Article: Equality and Diversity training for chambers — LAG programme

Equality and Diversity Training courses in 2011 The Equality and Diversity Code

Article: Judicial diversity

New diversity statistics show that of 624 lawyers applying for 36 posts as fee paid employment tribunal judges between April and September 2009, 40 per cent of applicants and 54 per cent of those selected were women, while 13 per cent of applicants and...

Article: Lawyers without rights

“Six million is a big number”, Lord Justice Stanley Burnton told the group assembled in Temple Church on May 12 for the opening of “Lawyers without rights:  Jewish lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich”, but the impact of this exhibition is to help us...

Article: More women become judges

JudiciaryWomen have done well in the latest Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) rounds.

Article: New Chair and Vice-Chair of the BSB Equality and Diversity Committee

The Bar Standards Board welcomes Sally Hawkins, as the new Chair of its Equality and Diversity Committee and Declan O'Dempsey as the Vice Chair. Sally Hawkins is an equalities consultant. She has assisted some of the UK’s foremost public services and...

Article: No bar to the Bar

Two years after publication of Lord Neuberger’s Entry to the Bar Working Party Report, the Bar Council launched “No bar to the Bar: barristers promoting social mobility”, a brochure setting out the work done by the Bar in this area and the initiatives...

Article: Rise in number of women applying to become judges

Efforts to broaden the profile of the Bench appear to be working, with more women and black and ethnic minority (“BME”) lawyers applying for judicial office.

Article: The Bar's recent initiatives to promote social mobility in the profession will assist former Minister Alan Milburn's review being launched this week alongside a Government White Paper

An in-depth inquiry into the background of entrants to the Bar by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury in 2007 produced 57 recommendations amounting to a detailed road-map for the promotion of social mobility. The Bar Council is hard at work implementing...

Article: The Bar’s efforts to secure a diverse profession for the longterm reflected in intimate portrait of life at the Bar

A major new documentary has been broadcast on BBC 2. The Barristers was an intimate portrait which details life at the Bar from aspiring barristers through to senior silks. The four-part documentary was the result of four years of collaboration...