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were appointed. Of the 16 High Court judges who started sitting in October
2019 and have so far been announced, one appointee is BAME.
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2.31. Across the two years reviewed, the JAC RRI analyses suggest that for the
Circuit and High Court judge exercises (as well as all legal exercises) BAME
applicants were statistically less likely than white applicants to be
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recommended for appointment as a proportion of those who applied.

2.32. Appointments of BAME candidates to the key feeder roles are also rare. In the
2019 Recorder exercises, of 159 appointments we were able to verify the
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ethnicity of 137 appointees; of these 11 (7%) were BAME. This compares
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favourably with the 5% of Recorder appointees from 2018 who are BAME.
In the 2018 s.9(4) Deputy High Court Judge competition, one of the 32
Deputies appointed was BAME. In 2019, there were no BAME Deputies
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among the 24 appointments.
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2.33. Given the very low numbers of BAME appointees, it was not possible to
conduct inferential statistics on the intersections of ethnicity with other
variables.

Notes on the pool

70 ‘High Court Judge Appointments’, Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, available online at
https://www.judiciary.uk/announcements/high-court-judge-appointments-4/
71 Judicial Appointments Commission, ‘Judicial Selection and Recommendations for Appointment:
Official Statistics, 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019’, June 2019, p.14, available online at
https://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sync/about_the_jac/official_statistics/statis
tics-bulletin-jac-2018-19.pdf
72 This is based on JUSTICE’s own analysis. The demographics of the candidates for this exercise will
not be available until the JAC’s 2020 report.
73 This is based on JUSTICE’s own analysis.
74 ‘Deputy High Court Judges 2018’, Judicial Appointments Commission, available online at
https://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/deputy-high-court-judges-2018
75 ‘Deputy High Court Judges 2019’, Judicial Appointments Commission, available online at
https://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/deputy-high-court-judges-2019
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