That failure, it says, has become “a serious constitutional issue”. There is only one woman on the supreme court, its deputy president Lady Hale, and there has never been a female lord chief justice of England and Wales. “Structural change – not tinkering – is required if the complexion of the bench is to really change,” the Justice report says. Her husband, Lord Mance, is on the supreme court. Lord Justice Leveson and Lady Justice Hallett, who might have been prominent candidates, are both 68 this year.

Source: The Guardian April 25, 2017 17:37 UTC