Ministry of Justice Expands Team to Recruit ‘Diverse Judges’ – Guido Fawkes

Ministry of Justice Expands Team to Recruit ‘Diverse Judges’

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The Judicial Appointments Commission of the MoJ is out hiring for a Diversity Policy Manager to “implement and develop our diversity policy activities.” The JAC is responsible for selection of judges in courts and tribunals up to the High Court as well as non-legal tribunal members..

The successful candidate will have “knowledge of the diversity issues affecting the judiciary and legal professions” and will help the JAC’s commitment to “promoting diversity within the judiciary, ensuring that it better reflects the diversity of society” in recruitment campaigns, which the organisation runs every few weeks. That includes “diversity reviews of JAC selection materials and responding to diversity-related enquiries.” For that you get a £42,019 salary and gold-plated Civil Service pension…

The judiciary’s repeated questionable decisions on asylum cases and continued imposition of two-tier sentencing guidelines have finally been dragged to the public’s attention this year and forced Labour into defensive action. A beefed up woke recruitment team is one way to deal with the judge problem…