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Gender

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Table 1. The proportion of women in senior courts (2017-2019)
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2017 2018 2019
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N % N % N %
Supreme 1 8.3% 3 25% 3 25%
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Court
Court of 9 23.7% 9 24% 9 23%
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Appeal
High Court 21 22% 23 24% 26 27%

Circuit 172 27% 192 29% 210 31%
Bench

24 These data are based on the official judicial diversity statistics published on the judiciary’s website
annually. Caution should be exercised when reading the figures regarding ‘all senior courts’ given the
differences in eligibility, pool, selection methods and panels, etc.
25 Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, ‘Judicial Diversity Statistics 2017’, July 2017, (Table 1.1: Primary
appointment of Judges in Courts in England and Wales, by gender, ethnicity, professional background,
age and payment type, as at 1 April 2017) available online at https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-
judiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/diversity/judicial-diversity-statistics-2017/
26 Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, ‘Judicial Diversity Statistics 2018’, July 2018, (Table 1.1: Primary
appointment of Judges in Courts in England and Wales, by gender, ethnicity, professional background,
age and payment type, as at 1 April 2018) available online at https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2018/07/judicial-diversity-statistics-2018-1.pdf
27 Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, ‘Judicial Diversity Statistics 2019’, July 2019, (Table 1.1: Primary
appointment of Judges in Courts in England and Wales, by gender, ethnicity, professional background,
age and payment type, as at 1 April 2019) available online at
https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2019-2/
28 As of April 2017, when the statistics were published, there was only one woman justice in the
Supreme Court (Lady Hale). The second woman was not appointed to the Supreme Court until
October 2017.
29 Note the total number of judges in the Court of Appeal dropped from 39 to 38, hence the difference
in the % despite there being only 1 more woman appointed to this level.
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