Lord Judge spoke of his concern over the issue of judicial diversity, and also of demonstrating equality in the eyes of the law for the majority and minority alike.
He urged ethnic minority members of the legal professions to consider a judicial career.
“The list of judicial qualities is a long one, and you can pick and choose among your favourites. You can also identify judicial failings, and no doubt you have all experienced examples of them. But what I have said before, and I do not hesitate to repeat now, is that none of the qualities have anything whatever to do with gender, or colour, or creed, or origins. Neither gender, nor colour, nor creed, nor origins has the slightest relevance to the identity of those most fitted to be judges or indeed to the judiciary as a whole. Justice is depicted blindfold. The selection process should be blindfold.”
