We want to create the conditions for the UK’s legal services sector to flourish by developing a sustainable, efficient and effective system. This includes securing legal services market access overseas, growing the UK’s market share, and enhancing the international competitiveness and attractiveness of the legal sector.
We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
To expand and develop the ability to communicate, act and deliver inclusivity and embed long-lasting equality, diversity and inclusion principles into business practices and people processes across key client-bases and t...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
The project aims to embed equality, diversity and inclusion principles into business practices and people processes in the legal sector, which partially addresses the question about enablers to encouraging and sustaining diversity in the legal profession.
Summary: The UK has lower productivity than many comparable economies. There are also large differences in education choices and career outcomes between similarly qualified individuals from different backgrounds. These d...
Funded by: UKRI
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project specifically addresses the question by exploring the barriers to diversity in senior roles in the legal profession and providing strategies to increase diversity at all levels within organizations.
RATIONALE Fair access to employment is the cornerstone of a just, equal and socially mobile society. Despite efforts in recent years by government and industry to implement fair access policies, a 2015 report by the gove...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Queen Mary University of London
The project examines the role of accent bias in hiring situations in the legal profession, which is relevant to understanding the barriers to diversity in senior roles. However, it does not directly address the question of enablers to encouraging and sustaining greater diversity.