The Daily Mail is fur bee an "openly gay" judge livered a lg on Brex today.
Contents:
- BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
- JUDICIAL CULTURE STILL TERS GAY AND LBIAN LAWYERS, SAY REARCHERS
- UK: FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TO BE APPOTED CHANCELLOR OF THE HIGH COURT
- THE DAILY MAIL IS VERY UPSET BEE AN ‘OPENLY GAY JUDGE’ LED ON BREX
BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
Sir Terence Etherton, Bra’s first openly gay senr judge, has been appoted master of the rolls, makg him head of the civil judiciary England and 64-year-old lawyer’s promotn was nfirmed by an announcement om Downg Street on Thursday morng. The judiciary is failg to reflect the UK's gay and lbian muny, experts say, as rearch suggts is serly unr-reprented on the bench. Rearch by the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) law work Interlaw has found that judicial culture, the perceptn of hostily to gay judg and the isolated nature of the job are terrg gay and lbian lawyers om applyg for reers as study also suggts that gay and lbian lawyers fear that their private liv may be subject to addnal scty if they were to bee judg.
Although Nberger's report referred to creasg sexual diversy the judiciary, the Judicial Appotments Commissn (JAC) ‑ the official body rponsible for appotg judg ‑ has still not llected any data on the number of gay and lbian judg. In the 1970s, the then lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham, formally exclud gay and lbian lawyers om enterg the judiciary, by allowg only married people to be appoted to the practice was only end 1991, when the then lord chancellor, Lord Mackay, allowed unmarried people to bee judg. However, there are still few openly gay judg.
Court of appeal judge Sir Terence Etherton, high urt and ternatnal crimal urt judge Sir Adrian Fulford and circu judge Jeremy Richardson are among the few judg England and Wal known to be gay. "We have no ia how many gay and lbian judg there actually are, " said Daniel Wterfeldt, partner at law firm Simmons & Simmons and founr of Interlaw. It's clearly a mark on the profsn that so few gay and lbian judg feel able to be visible.
JUDICIAL CULTURE STILL TERS GAY AND LBIAN LAWYERS, SAY REARCHERS
In 2008, Sir Terence beme the first openly gay Lord Jtice of Appeal.
He shar his start date wh the new head of the High Court’s Fay Divisn, Lord Jtice (Jam) Munby a strong supporter of equaly for gay people. The Daily Mail is fur bee an “openly gay” judge livered a lg on Brex today. Referrg to the group, the newspaper ially fumed: “The judg who blocked Brex: One who found a EUROPEAN law group, another charged the taxpayer lns for advice, and the third is an openly gay ex-Olympic fencer”.
UK: FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE TO BE APPOTED CHANCELLOR OF THE HIGH COURT
The “openly gay ex-Olympic fencer” the headle refers to Sir Terence Etherton, the untry’s send-most senr judge, who has more than four s of legal experience.