Statistics - Minority Ethnic Judges in Post
As at 1st April 2007
Note: The database of the ethnic origin of the judiciary may be incomplete as (a) candidates are asked to provide the information on a voluntary basis and (b) such details have only been collected since October 1991.
| Mixed | Asian or Asian British |
Black or Black British |
Chinese (inc. Other) |
Other Ethnic Group |
Total Minority Ethnic |
Total in post |
% Minority Ethnic |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | Men | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0% |
| Women | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0% | |
Heads of Division |
Men | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| Women | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0% | |
| Lord Justice of Appeal | Men | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0% |
| Women | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0% | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0% | |
| High Court Judge | Men | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 0% |
| Women | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 10% | |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 108 | 0.93% | |
| Circuit Judge (including judges of the Court of Technology & Construction) |
Men | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 566 | 0.88% |
| Women | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 73 | 5.48% | |
| Total | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 639 | 1.41% | |
| Recorder | Men | 11 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 1022 | 4.01% |
| Women | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 179 | 7.26% | |
| Total | 14 | 24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 1201 | 4.5% | |
| Recorder In Training | Men | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0% |
| Women | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0% | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0% | |
| District Judge (including Family Division) |
Men | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 349 | 2.29% |
| Women | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 101 | 5.94% | |
| Total | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 450 | 3.11% | |
| Deputy District Judge (including Family Division) |
Men | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 561 | 1.96% |
| Women | 4 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 219 | 8.68% | |
| Total | 6 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 780 | 3.85% | |
| District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) As at 31-08-00 all Stipendiary Magistrates became District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) |
Men | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 106 | 4.72% |
| Women | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 6.06% | |
| Total | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 139 | 5.04% | |
| Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Crt) As at 31-08-00 all Stipendiary Magistrates became District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) |
Men | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 129 | 4.72% |
| Women | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 42 | 7.14% | |
| Total | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 169 | 5.33% | |
Government departments, public bodies and private organisations are increasingly adopting the self-classification format for ethnic monitoring used in the 2001 census which has 16 categories including "other" plus "unknown". This format is commonly referred to as the 16 + 1 format. DCA's previous monitoring of applicants for judicial posts was by self-classification which used 4 categories, including "other", plus "unknown". In April 2003 DCA adopted the 16+1 format and used it to conduct an ethnicity survey of all serving members of the judiciary who were in post at 31 March 2003. The new format enables us to have fewer persons classified as "unknown".