Women, judging and the judiciary : from difference to diversity / Erika Rackley.
2013
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Author
Title
Women, judging and the judiciary : from difference to diversity / Erika Rackley.
Published
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Call Number
KD472.W65 R33 2013
ISBN
9780415548618 (hbk.)
0415548616 (hbk.)
0415548616 (hbk.)
Description
xv, 226 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)778828852
Note
"A GlassHouse book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
xi
Foreword / Baroness Hale of Richmond
xiii
Introduction
1
Outline of the book
4
1.
Positioning the woman judge
7
A pen portrait of the judiciary of England and Wales
7
A comparative perspective
17
Arguments for judicial diversity
23
Legitimacy and public confidence
23
Equity
26
Difference
27
2.
Delivering diversity in the legal profession
31
Rejecting the trickle-up argument
31
Treading water - a statistical profile of women in the legal profession
36
Barristers
36
Solicitors
40
Legal executives
44
Stagnating, not trickling-up
45
Commitment, choice and other old chestnuts
47
Long hours and greedy employers
48
Old boys and mini-mes
53
Invisible pregnancies and self-raising families
58
Moving beyond the trickle-up argument
65
3.
How we appoint judges
69
Judicial appointment? Not for the likes of me
69
From Lord Chancellor to Judicial Appointments Commission
72
The JAC: new broom, same old cobwebs
76
Setting the ground rules
77
Appointments up to and including the High Court
78
Appointments to the Court of Appeal and leadership positions
80
Appointments of Supreme Court justices (including President and Deputy President)
84
A work in progress - reinventing the new wheel
88
Delivering judicial diversity: high hopes and false expectations
91
Grasping the nettle - quotas, targets and other forms of diversity-engineering
95
Getting off on the wrong foot
100
4.
Representations of the woman judge: revisiting the little mermaid
107
Setting the scene
108
Once upon a time - telling stories of the woman judge
110
Turning the page
120
Opting out - non-fiction accounts of women judges
121
Undressing the judge
125
Coda
128
5.
Difference and the default judge
129
The default judge: superhero, every-judge or fiction?
129
Excluding difference
136
Embracing difference
138
Lawyering and judging in a different voice
138
Searching for judicial difference
142
Reclaiming difference
146
The default judge and the different voice
146
Women judges: making a difference
149
Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino
151
R v J
158
What difference?
162
6.
Making the argument for judicial diversity
165
Diversity in judging
166
Improving the judicial product
169
Judging gender: K and Fornah in the House of Lords
172
Redressing judicial disadvantage
177
Parkinson v St James and Seacroft Hospital NHS Trust
180
A diverse judiciary is a better judiciary
185
Maximising diversity, maximising merit
187
Merit, dislodged
189
Merit, distorted
191
Merit in diversity
194
Letting go of the default judge, welcoming diversity
195
Concluding remarks
199
Bibliography
203
Index
221