Barristers who are female or from minority ethnic backgrounds remain underrepresented
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today (27 January) published a summary of the latest available diversity data for the bar.
The data showed the continuation of several longer-term trends, including increases in the proportion of practising barristers who are female, from a minority ethnic background, have primary care of a child, have a disability and/or are aged 55 or over.
Notably, there has been an increase of 3.3 percentage points (pp) in the proportion of female pupils (to 59.9 per cent) and a continued increase in the proportion of all practitioners who ar...
