In both years, 30 women were successful. The dramatic change was in the success of BAME applicants: 22 were selected. It had never been more than 18 and that was in The question of encouraging more women applicants has concerned QCA since it was set up.
Proportionately, women have always had a greater success rate than men in applying. QCA began selecting in From then to , however, the average number of women applicants dipped to The last three years have seen the raw numbers of applicants up to the 50s but the number of appointments are the same 31, 30, Two out of six new QCs who practise in more than one area are women. This is all below their representation in the Bar. What can be done? Obviously QCA is in no position to alter the culture of the Bar in terms of working practices, allocation of work or to add to existing mentoring schemes.
All it can do is to accommodate applicants so that the process is not confined to those who have spent their entire professional career as advocates doing a succession of increasingly sophisticated cases in court.
QCA then undertook to change the application process in Until then, applicants were expected to list eight judges, six fellow advocates and four clients as prospective assessors. This was held to be unfair.
It had become commonplace for applicants to ask their assessors in advance if they were willing to provide an assessment. This was aimed at identifying those who were keen and willing and weeding out the merely lukewarm. But apparently only men did this; independent research showed that women were more reluctant to do so.
This time the applicants were asked to list 12 cases of substance, complexity etc and for each one to list a judicial and practitioner assessor and up to six client assessors. On the other hand, 22 applicants named fewer than eight different judicial assessors and ten named fewer than six although they provided a satisfactory explanation for that. The report does not say who they were in terms of gender or the correlation between numbers of assessors and who was asked to interview and then recommended for appointment.
One needs to know if women applicants did find the new system there were other changes as well more suitable to their practices. News of the appointments broke prior to the official announcement by the Lord Chancellor, David Lidington , and the release, by the independent QC Appointments Panel which supervises the awards process, of the names of those appointed, alongside a statistical breakdown of the results.
The appointments system was reintroduced in following modifications to allow for independent assessment and recommendation, separate from government, following a three-year hiatus. The new silks, as the title is colloquially known, after the material from which the gowns of leading counsel are made, will be appointed at a ceremony at Westminster Hall next month. Khan is the first criminal law solicitor-silk to be appointed in several years.
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