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Challenging race inequality

06 October 2020
Issue: 7905 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Equality , Diversity
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The Bar Council has published three guides on race inequality at the Bar, as the legal profession marks Black History Month

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.

Issue: 7905 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Equality , Diversity
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