New appointees to the High Court bench are, it turns out, embarrassingly white, male, public-schooly and barristerial. I wish I could argue that true appointment on merit may or may not result in more black and women appointees, more solicitors, etc. – so why expect that it must do so?

But my heart’s not in it; I think this is about old, old attitudes proving very hard to root out.

2008-01-28T21:19:00+00:00Tags: , |