White and male UK judiciary ‘from another planet’, says Lady Hale

Exclusive: Supreme court president wants to see more progress in diversity of senior benches

The judiciary needs to be more diverse so that the public feel those on the bench are genuinely “our judges” rather than “beings from another planet”, the president of the supreme court has said.

In an interview to mark the centenary of the 1919 act that dismantled barriers preventing women from entering the professions, Lady Hale called for a more balanced gender representation on the UK’s highest court as well as swifter progress promoting those from minority ethnic backgrounds and with “less privileged lives”.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2s28knh