Select Committee on the Constitution
Judicial Appointments: follow-up
7th Report of Session 2017-19 - published 2 November 2017 - HL Paper 32
Chapter 2: The attractiveness of judicial careers
Table 1: Factors promoting early departures
Working conditions and resources
Returning to practice after a judicial career
Relationship with the Government
Encouraging a wider range of candidates to apply
Increasing the success rate of applicants
Figure 2: The percentage of court judges whose profession is non-barrister, 1 April 2017
Why are the success rates low?
Figure 3: BAME representation among court and tribunal judges and non-legal members 2014 to 2017
Figure 4: BAME representation among court judges, 1 April 2017
Figure 6: Female representation at each court judge role, 1 April 2017
Judicial Diversity Forum and Judicial Diversity Committee
Diversity training and outreach
Flexible working and deployment
Summary of Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/judicial-appointments-follow-up and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
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