Since , 26 different people have acted as Attorney-General. All three Cookes became QCs relatively early in their career, taking an average of just over 15 years from admission to appointment. The QC rank is held for life. He died just under three months later, on 5 September QCs are involved in a relatively high proportion of proceedings in the higher courts.
He has found that, over that period, Of the new appointments in , 30 were women In , 32 women were appointed The round attracted applications, down 32 on the previous year.
In , Is location still important? 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.
We already know that at least in this year it did not lead to an increase in women applicants. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronize the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.
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Home Basket. Log in Sign up. Queen's Counsel Barrister Guide Are you an ambitious aspiring barrister wanting to know about career progression in your chosen career path? Commercial Awareness Updates. Jump to Section Icon. By the late 20th century, formal privileges had been established: Uniform: a short wig, wing collar, and bands and a silk gown. This, however, no longer has any practical significance Position within court: QCs were also entitled to sit in the front row.
How to Become a Barrister Read about the steps involved in becoming a barrister here. The Four Inns of Court You must join an inn before you qualify as a barrister. I Consent See Cookie Policy. This contrasts with the steady rise in the total number of practicing barristers — from 14, in to more than 15, in The BSB figures showed that there were 1, self-employed silks in , but only 1, in The number of female QCs also dropped, from to
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