This document is the related seminar to the Reading Academic Literature lecture. It provides more detailed information regarding the appropriate way to interpret and extract key pieces of information from academic literature. It takes an in depth look at articles from Lady Hale and Rosemary Hunter.
Lady Hale, 'Making a Difference - Why We Need a More Diverse Judiciary' (2005) 56
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 281
Rosemary Hunter, ‘More than Just a Different Face? Judicial Diversity and Decision-
making’ (2015) 68 Current Legal Problems 119
Quotations
Lady Hale:
“Other developments have made the legal system much more accessible to ordinary members
of the public, and increased the range of issues that can be brought to court”
“In this changed world(…)it matters much more who the judiciary are and how they are
perceived.”
“The presence of women on the Bench makes the legal system less alien and more relevant to
the female half of our population.”
Rosemary Hunter:
“The presence of women judges increases the democratic legitimacy of the judiciary, because
a bench including women is more representative of the wider society which it serves than a
bench with no women.”
“The presence of women judges provides encouragement and active mentoring for women in
the legal profession, law students, and indeed younger women and girls, to aspire to, seek,
and obtain judicial appointment, thus creating a virtuous circle enabling the gender balance
in the judiciary to be improved.”
“One theory is that all judges bring their life experience to the process of judging, and
women’s life experiences—in particular, their experiences of pregnancy, childbirth,
childbearing, and juggling work and family responsibilities, as well as often of sexism and
discrimination—are very different from men’s. Thus, the inclusion of women’s experiences
will make law more representative of the variety of human experience.”
Summaries
Lady Hale’s article highlights the difference in statistics of the male to female ratio in the
legal profession. Differing form Hunter’s article, Hale is clearly in support of a more diverse
judiciary whereas Hunter argues both sides from a neutral standpoint. Addressing the reasons
why the judiciary needs to change, as well as showing how it would improve things, Hale
makes a convincing argument in support of a more diverse judiciary.
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