In an interview last year Lady Hale was asked what could be done to improve judicial diversity, and how to encourage more women on to the bench. She replied that “the most obvious barrier to the progression of women in the judiciary is that high judicial office has been reserved to those with successful careers as barristers. The Bar is the least family friendly profession in the world… the proportion of senior women at the Bar is still relatively low.”
Hale (pictured) suggested that removing barriers to women within the profession and also encouraging more solicitors to sit on the bench could achieve more diversity. The inevitable question is how this is to be achieved.
