Equal Justices Initiative
The aim of the Equal Justices Initiative (EJI) is to promote the equal participation of men and women in the judiciary in England and Wales by 2015.
The EJI serves as a forum for bringing together academics, practitioners, judges and policy-makers to work towards gender parity on the bench. Read about the EJI aims and background.
Supreme Court still only has one female member
The new UK Supreme Court opened in October 2009. Only one member of the Court is a woman. Lady Brenda Hale was appointed to the predecessor of the Supreme Court, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords in 2003, the first and only female Law Lord. Since her appointment there have been a further fifteen appointments to the House of Lords or Supreme Court. None of which has been a woman.
Linda Dobbs was appointed to the High Court Bench in October 2004
In 2012 she is still the only female lawyer from a BME background to be appointed to the High Court Bench...