The guides, produced by the Bar’s Race Working Group, explain the key challenges regarding pupillage, bullying and general culture, and include a framework for chambers to adopt. They highlight how barristers from ethnic minority backgrounds often feel uncomfortable or experience micro-aggressions in the workplace.
Last month, barrister Alexandra Wilson, who is black, lodged a complaint after being mistaken for a defendant three times in one day at the magistrates’ court.
Chair of the Bar, Amanda Pinto QC, said: ‘Although Black History Month in many ways looks back, it is a particularly pertinent time for us all to look forward.’
View the guides at: bit.ly/3ngZDAV, bit.ly/36B65gq and bit.ly/2I09OK7.
Lawyers have marked BHM in a variety of ways, from Hogan Lovells' sponsorship and hosting of the Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership annual lecture on 1 October, to Irwin Mitchell’s production of an e-book celebrating Black culture and cuisine.
