'It's a very white bench': Judges to mentor black and Indigenous lawyers
The Nova Scotia Judiciary has launched a mentorship program for African-Nova Scotian and Indigenous lawyers who want to become judges. When a call went out earlier this year, more than 50 Nova Scotia judges stepped forward to volunteer as mentors. Of the 104 judges across Nova Scotia, only about 10 per cent are not white. "It's a very white bench if you want to look at it globally and there's much more, I think, has to be done," Nova Scotia Chief Justice Michael MacDonald, of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, said Tuesday. "We now have over 180 black and Aboriginal lawyers … represented here in Nova Scotia," Williams said.
Source: CBC News August 02, 2017 09:00 UTC
