What does ‘ideal’ diversity amongst magistrates and the judiciary look like? What works to promote, enable, and sustain diversity among magistrates and the judiciary? To what extent do different recruitment approaches facilitate diversity?
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The rule of law describes the fundamental principles underpinning a functioning democracy. MOJ’s objective is to uphold the rule of law domestically and internationally, and promote the impact of legal services to support UK prosperity. We want to improve our understanding of the economic impact of the legal services sector, the challenges facing the legal profession and the opportunities offered by innovations in legal technology.
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From Difference to Diversity: An Imaginative Critique of the Judicial Appointments Process in England and Wales
This project explores the legal imagination. In particular, it focuses on the role of the imagination in shaping and informing understandings of the judge and judging. It contends that our understandings and interpretati...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Durham University
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores the role of imagination in shaping understandings of judges and judging, which is relevant to the question of diversity among magistrates and the judiciary.