If you are interested in Diversity and Inclusion, you may be interested in some of these articles and other information from June 2023:
Read:
- Law Society Gazette: Mother sues firm after solicitor son took his own life
- #LegalPride2023: 10 years since same-sex marriage became law
- Law Society Gazette: Making flexible training a reality
- Law Society Gazette: Government introduces post-GCSE course for legal services
- Law Society Gazette: Tribunal orders JAC to disclose candidate material
- Law Society Gazette: City firms unite to boost solicitor-apprenticeship numbers
- Law Society Gazette: Social Mobility Awareness Day: Profession asked to #SpeakMore
- Law Society Gazette: Carr to be first female lord chief justice
- The Guardian ‘I became Billy No-Mates’: a disabled magistrate in an inaccessible court
- Most magistrates courts in England and Wales have accessibility failings
- Law Society Gazette: Magistrates condemn ‘disturbing’ lack of accessibility in court buildings
- Law Society Gazette: Misconduct: ‘No simple explanation’ for race bias in complaints
- Law Society Gazette: Complaints to the SRA – addressing over-representation of BAME solicitors
- Law Society: Proximity bias: Working in-office may boost career growth
- Pride Month: the power of public law
- Law Society Gazette: TLT reaches 33% female partner target two years early
- Law Society Gazette: Happy anniversary to the women in law pledge
- Law.com: Law firms with the most female equity partners 2023
- First woman set to lead judiciary in 755 years
- Counsel Magazine: What makes a good mental health & wellbeing policy?
- Counsel Magazine: Everyday EDI
- Counsel Magazine: Establishing a successful mentoring scheme
- Law Society: “It was state-sponsored homophobia”: the impact of section 28 on the legal profession
- Law Society Gazette: Network to empower South Asian women in law
- Law Society Gazette: External lawyers needed to tackle racism, sexism and elitism in cricket
- Legal Cheek: Network launched to empower South Asian women in law
- Law Society Gazette: Enhancing and advancing the role of Muslim lawyers
- Law Society Gazette: The Jewish community’s ‘submerged’ contribution to cricket
- Wellbeing : Tips for junior lawyers struggling with supervisors.
- WFH: Is it time for solicitors to follow their clients back to the office?
- Law Society Gazette: Interview: Blake Morgan chair Kath Shimmin missed the diversity bus.
- Law Society: “All you can see is dark”: dealing with depression as a small firm leader
- Windrush 75: What is Windrush and who are the Windrush generation?
- The Lawyer: My Pride Story: I had no real understanding of the deepness of my shame
Research and Reports:
- Magistrates’ Association Report: Inaccessible courts: A barrier to inclusive justice (June 2023)
- SRA: The factors influencing differences in outcomes by ethnicity in legal professional assessments: A systematic literature review
- SRA: Overrepresentation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic solicitors in reports to the SRA: literature review
